Best practices for the management of local-regional recurrent chordoma: a position paper by the Chordoma Global Consensus Group

• Published in: Annals of oncology Vol. 28; no. 6; pp. 1230 - 1242
• Main Authors: Stacchiotti, S., Gronchi, A., Fossati, P., Akiyama, T., Alapetite, C., Baumann, M., Blay, J.Y., Bolle, S., Boriani, S., Bruzzi, P., Capanna, R., Caraceni, A., Casadei, R., Colia, V., Debus, J., Delaney, T., Desai, A., Dileo, P., Dijkstra, S., Doglietto, F., Flanagan, A., Froelich, S., Gardner, P.A., Gelderblom, H., Gokaslan, Z.L., Haas, R., Heery, C., Hindi, N., Hohenberger, P., Hornicek, F., Imai, R., Jeys, L., Jones, R.L., Kasper, B., Kawai, A., Krengli, M., Leithner, A., Logowska, I., Martin Broto, J., Mazzatenta, D., Morosi, C., Nicolai, P., Norum, O.J., Patel, S., Penel, N., Picci, P., Pilotti, S., Radaelli, S., Ricchini, F., Rutkowski, P., Scheipl, S., Sen, C., Tamborini, E., Thornton, K.A., Timmermann, B., Torri, V., Tunn, P.U., Uhl, M., Yamada, Y., Weber, D.C., Vanel, D., Varga, P.P., Vleggeert-Lankamp, C.L.A., Casali, P.G., Sommer, J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2017; Elsevier; Oxford University Press
• Series: Annals of oncology . official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology
• Subjects: chemotherapy; chordoma; Chordoma - therapy; Humans; Life Sciences; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; Practice Guidelines as Topic; radiotherapy; relapse; Reviews; sarcoma; surgery; radiotherapy; sarcoma; chordoma; relapse; chemotherapy; surgery

Chordomas are rare, malignant bone tumors of the skull-base and axial skeleton. Until recently, there was no consensus among experts regarding appropriate clinical management of chordoma, resulting in inconsistent care and suboptimal outcomes for many patients. To address this shortcoming, the Europ...