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Lung Matastases

A common place for Ewing's sarcoma to spread is the lungs. Some articles that discuss this are: 

  • 2005 article on lung metastases which discusses sarcoma

  • 2004 abstract of a paper dealing with surgery for lung metastases in Ewing's sarcoma of the bone

  • 2004 abstract discussing a study in which 32 Ewing's sarcoma patients has lung metastases 

  • 2001 abstract about whole lung irradiation for Ewing's sarcoma patients who have pulmonary metastases at the time of daignosis. Since many patients with pulmonary mets do not respond to the induction chemo, whole lung irradiation may benefit

  • 1999 article on the National Cancer Institute's CancerWEB

  • 1998 paper that discusses the survival analysis of 114 (European Intergroup) Cooperative Ewing's Sarcoma patients with primary lung metastases

  • 1998 abstract indicating whole lung radiation and megatherapy improve outcome in patients with disseminated Ewing's tumors