[Radiotherapeutic treatment of soft tissue sarcomas (author's transl)]

From 1950 until 1976, 33 patients with diverse soft tissue sarcomas (excluding rhabdomyosarcomas) were treated by us with radiotherapy after local excision or with radiotherapy alone. More than 70% of these patients had no evidence of disease after eight years. Including secondary treatment, the eight year survival rate was more than 90%. Our results are in accordance with some published reports, which demonstrate, that a combination of conservative surgery and radiotherapy (6600--7000 rd) achieve at least the same symptomless survival rate in patients with soft tissue sarcoma as radical surgery including amputation.