Systemic therapy for selected skull base sarcomas: Chondrosarcoma, chordoma, giant cell tumour and solitary fibrous tumour/hemangiopericytoma

Vittoria Colia; Salvatore Provenzano; Nadia Hindi; Paolo G Casali; Silvia Stacchiotti

doi:10.1016/j.rpor.2015.12.005

Systemic therapy for selected skull base sarcomas: Chondrosarcoma, chordoma, giant cell tumour and solitary fibrous tumour/hemangiopericytoma

Rep Pract Oncol Radiother. 2016 Jul-Aug;21(4):361-9. doi: 10.1016/j.rpor.2015.12.005. Epub 2016 Jan 13.

Authors

Vittoria Colia¹, Salvatore Provenzano¹, Nadia Hindi¹, Paolo G Casali¹, Silvia Stacchiotti¹

Affiliation

¹ Adult Mesenchymal Tumour & Rare Cancer Medical Oncology Unit, Cancer Medicine Department, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy.

Abstract

This review highlights the data currently available on the activity of systemic therapy in chondrosarcoma, chordoma, giant cell tumour of the bone (GCTB) and solitary fibrous tumour, i.e., four rare sarcomas amongst mesenchymal malignancy arising from the skull base.

Keywords: Chondrosarcoma; Chordoma; Giant cell tumour; Sarcoma; Skull base; Solitary fibrous tumour.

Publication types

Review