Pediatric Sarcoma Patients Face Late Amputation Risk Decades Later
BALTIMORE — Pediatric patients who underwent limb salvage surgery (LSS) for lower extremity sarcomas had a substantial risk of undergoing late amputation, a researcher reported. In a retrospective analysis of data from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (CCSS), the cumulative incidence of late amputation at 20 years after LSS was almost one out of every […]