SELNET clinical practice guidelines for bone sarcoma
Jean‐Yves Blay, Emanuela Palmerini, Julien Bollard, Samuel Aguiar, Martín Ángel, B. Araya, R. Badilla, Daniel Bernabéu, Fernando Augusto Batista Campos, Chs Caro-Sánchez, A. Carvajal Montoya, Sandro Casavilca‐Zambrano, Victor Castro Oliden, Matías Chacón, M A Clara-Altamirano, Paola Collini, R. Correa Genoroso, Felipe D’Almeida Costa, M. Cuellar, Angelo Paolo Dei Tos, HR Dominguez Malagon, DM Donati, Armelle Dufresne, Mikael Eriksson, M. Farias-Loza, AM Frezza, Tommaso Frisoni, Dorian Yarih García-Ortega, H. Gerderblom, F. Gouin, M. Carmen Gómez-Mateo, Alessandro Gronchi, J.C. Haro Varas, Nadia Hindi, Lourdes Huanca, Natàlia Jiménez, Marie Karanian, Bernd Kasper, Ademar Lopes, BB Lopes David, Antonio López–Pousa, Georg Lutter, Robert G. Maki, Héctor Martínez‐Said, JL Martinez-Tlahuel, Celso Abdon Lopes de Mello, J. M. Morales Pérez, David S. Moura, Suely Akiko Nakagawa, Antonio G. Nascimento, EJ Ortiz-Cruz, Shreyaskumar Patel, Yanina Pflüger, Salvatore Provenzano, Alberto Righi, A. Rodriguez, T.T.G. Santos, Katia Scotlandi, Silva Mlg, Tomás Soulé, Silvia Stacchiotti, CM Valverde, Federico Waisberg, E. Zamora Estrada, Javier Martín‐Broto
Abstract
Bone sarcoma are infrequent diseases, representing < 0.2% of all adult neoplasms. A multidisciplinary management within reference centers for sarcoma, with discussion of the diagnostic and therapeutic strategies within an expert multidisciplinary tumour board, is essential for these patients, given its heterogeneity and low frequency. This approach leads to an improvement in patient's outcome, as demonstrated in several studies. The Sarcoma European Latin-American Network (SELNET), aims to improve clinical outcome in sarcoma care, with a special focus in Latin-American countries. These Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) have been developed and agreed by a multidisciplinary expert group (including medical and radiation oncologist, surgical oncologist, orthopaedic surgeons, radiologist, pathologist, molecular biologist and representatives of patients advocacy groups) of the SELNET consortium, and are conceived to provide the standard approach to diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of bone sarcoma patients in the Latin-American context.