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Cardiac Sarcomas: Is Tumor Debulking Justifiable Therapy?

Department of Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery India 1 Department of Cardiovascular Pathology King Edward VII Memorial Hospital Mumbai, India

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During a 15-year period from 1982 to 1997, 4 cases out of approximately 12,000 open-heart operations were performed at our institute for malignant cardiac tumors. Three of these tumors were angiosarcomas and one was a high-grade spindle-cell sarcoma. The prognosis for all 4 patients was uniformly poor in spite of maximal tumor debulking and postoperative chemotherapy.