Table 3 Soft tissue sarcomas grouped by chemosensitivity
From: UK guidelines for the management of soft tissue sarcomas
Relative chemosensitivity | Examples of soft tissue sarcomas |
|---|---|
Chemotherapy integral to management | Ewing’s sarcoma family tumours |
Embryonal and alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma | |
Chemosensitive | Desmoplastic small round cell tumour |
Synovial sarcoma | |
Myxoid/round cell liposarcoma | |
Uterine leiomyosarcoma | |
Moderately chemosensitive | Pleomorphic liposarcoma |
Epithelioid sarcoma | |
Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma | |
Leiomyosarcoma | |
Angiosarcoma | |
Relatively chemo-insensitive | Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour |
Myxofibrosarcoma | |
Dedifferentiated liposarcoma | |
Clear cell sarcoma | |
Endometrial stromal sarcoma | |
Chemoinsensitive | Alveolar soft part sarcoma |
Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma |