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Bearing in mind the cascade theory of metastatic spread (Bross and Blumenson 1976), it seems sensible to resect pulmonary metastases in a certain group of patients before the disease can spread generally, which is always a danger in a generalizing organ such as the lung.
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Schirren, J. et al. (1995). Results of Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Metastases from Soft Tissue Sarcomas. In: Bamberg, M., Hoffmann, W., Hossfeld, D.K. (eds) Soft Tissue Sarcomas in Adults. Recent Results in Cancer Research, vol 138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78768-3_15
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