[Chinese expert consensus on diagnosis and treatment of soft tissue sarcomas (Version 2015)]

Abstract

Soft tissue sarcoma is a group of malignancies of mesenchymal origin. It arises from almost every part of human body in all decades. Appropriate dagnosis and treatment of soft tissue sarcoma are always challenging to physicians and pathologists because of its extremely low incidence and variable biological behaviors among subtypes. Surgical resection remains the most important and only method to cure soft tissue sarcomas, while chemoradiation and target therapy are incorporated into multidisciplinary treatment model, but there is no generally accepted consensus on how to do multidisciplinary treatment properly and maximize the therapeutic effects. The aim of this article is to improve the understanding of multidisciplinary treatment of soft tissue sarcomas and to provide a guidance nationwide based on evidence-based medicine and expert's experience on related topics.