Evaluation of limb function after treatment with chemotherapy and carbon ion radiotherapy for Ewing sarcoma of the scapula: A report of three cases
Noriko Kato, Takashi Yanagawa, Masahiko Okamoto, Tatsuya Ohno, Hirotaka Chikuda · 2026
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Noriko Kato and colleagues report three patients with Ewing sarcoma of the shoulder blade treated with chemotherapy and carbon ion radiation, rating both cancer control and arm function, published in 2026. The tumor is rare, strikes mostly the young, and seldom starts in the shoulder blade. Heavy particle radiation offers a path that may spare surgery.
The patients were a seventy-five-year-old man, a forty-year-old man, and a thirty-two-year-old woman, treated at two centers in Japan. The two men stayed free of disease two and a half years after treatment, with fair to good shoulder scores. The woman kept fine shoulder motion at three years, though lung spread persisted, and her care included a bout of skin reaction treated with strong pain drugs and steroids.
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| CREATOR | Noriko Kato, Takashi Yanagawa, Masahiko Okamoto, Tatsuya Ohno, Hirotaka Chikuda |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 17791 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |