The PDQ cancer information summaries are reviewed regularly and updated as new information becomes available. This section describes the latest changes made to this summary as of the date above.

Purpose of This PDQ Summary

Added this new section.

Selected Soft Tissue Sarcomas in Children

Added Lietman et al. as reference 20.

Treatment Option Overview

Added Pappo et al. as reference 28.

Nonmetastatic Childhood Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Added text to state that young patients with MPNST and neurofibromatosis type-1 (NF-1) showed that most patients had large invasive tumors and reponded poorly to chemotherapy.Another series of older patients with MPNST found that those with NF-1 had a worse prognosis than those without NF-1 (cited Ferrari et al. and Hagel et al. as references 40 and 41, respectively).

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