Journal Of Clinical Oncology (jco) Podcast

This JCO podcast provides observations and commentaries on the JCO article entitled "Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules at diagnosis in Rhabdomyosarcoma: Are they clinically significant?"  A report from the European Pediatric Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group by Bas Vaarwerk, MD et al. My name is Alberto Pappo and I am the head of the division of solid tumors at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. My oncology specialty is pediatric oncology.  In this report, Bas Vaarwerk, and investigators from the European Pediatric Soft Tissue Sarcoma Study Group evaluated the significance of indeterminate pulmonary nodules at diagnosis in children with rhabdomyosarcoma defined as the presence of less than 5 pulmonary nodules measuring less than 5mm or 1 pulmonary nodule that measured between 5 and 9 millimeters. This analysis included 316 patients who were enrolled on the EpSSG RMS 2005 study for non-metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma from September 2005 through December 2013 and for whom chest computed tomography sca