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Original Articles

The Scandinavian Sarcoma Group Central Register: 6,000 patients after 25 years of monitoring of referral and treatment of extremity and trunk wall soft-tissue sarcoma

Clement TrovikDepartment Musculo-Skeletal Tumor Service/Oncology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; Correspondence[email protected]
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Henrik C F BauerDepartment Orthopedics/Oncology Service, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Emelie StyringDepartment Orthopedics, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden;
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Kirsten Sundby HallDepartment Oncology, Oslo University Hospital, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway;
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Fredrik Vult Von SteyernDepartment Orthopedics, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden;
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Sigvard ErikssonDepartment Orthopedics, Sahlgrenska Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden;
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Ingela JohanssonDepartment Orthopedics, Norrland University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden;
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Mika SampoDepartment Oncology, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland;
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Minna LaitinenDepartment Orthopedics, Tampere University Hospital, Tammerfors, Finland;
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Anders KalénDepartment Orthopedics, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden;
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Halldór Jónsson JrDepartment Orthopedics, Landspitalin, Reykjavik, Iceland;
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Nina JebsenDepartment Musculo-Skeletal Tumor Service/Oncology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway;
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Mikael ErikssonDepartment Oncology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden;
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Erkki TukiainenDepartment Plastic Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland;
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Najme WallDepartment Oncology, Linköping University Hospital, Linköping, Sweden;
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Olga ZaikovaDepartment Orthopedics, Oslo University Hospital, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway;
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Helgi SigurðssonDepartment Oncology, Landspitalin, Reykjavik, Iceland;
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Tuula LehtinenDepartment Oncology, Tampere University Hospital, Tammerfors, Finland;
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Bodil BjerkehagenDepartment Pathology, Oslo University Hospital, Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway;
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Mikael SkorpilDepartment Radiology, Akademiska Sjukhuset, Uppsala, and Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden;
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Geir Egil EideDepartment Centre for Clinical Research, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway; ;Department Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Norway;
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Elisabeth JohanssonDepartment Cancer Epidemiology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
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Thor A AlvegardDepartment Cancer Epidemiology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
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Pages 341-347 | Received 02 Jun 2016, Accepted 17 Dec 2016, Published online: 07 Mar 2017

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