Clinical Trials

The purpose of this study is to create a comprehensive system of tissue banking of samples from Mayo Clinic Arizona patients with a clinical diagnosis of sarcoma who will or have undergone a surgical procedure to remove the sarcoma. 

The primary objective of the study is to compare outcomes of patients undergoing sarcoma reconstructive surgery using fluorescence angiography with patients undergoing sarcoma reconstructive surgery without fluorescence angiograph.

The objective of this study is to leverage novel molecular assays to identify  predictive and prognostic biomarkers for sarcoma.

The goal of this study is to create a comprehensive system of tissue banking of samples from Mayo Clinic Arizona patients with a clinical diagnosis of sarcoma who will or have undergone a surgical procedure to remove the sarcoma.  The tissue samples will be used for future research of sarcoma at Mayo Clinic and future research at Mayo Clinic to learn about, prevent, or treat other health problems.   

We propose conducting a single arm, prospective study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a preoperative hypofractionated course, 42.75 Gy in 15 fractions, for localized, extremity and superficial trunk soft tissue sarcomas. The biologic equivalent dose of this regimen is 45.20 Gy10, similar to 43.83 Gy10 associated with conventionally fractionated 50 Gy in 25 fractions, to determine acute wound complications rates, analyze local failure rate, disease-free survival, overall survival, patterns of relapse, late toxicities, quality of life/patient-reported outcomes, and cost differences. We hypothesize a 15 fraction hypofractionated radiation therapy course will be associated with equivalent short term toxicity ...

The primary objectives of this study are to determine if a tailored prehabilitation program focusing on functional optimization of spared limb tissue in two groups of patients with localized, lower extremity soft tissue sarcoma, one with prehabilitation and one with equal attention and informational support, improves functional outcome as measure by the Toronto Extremity Salvage Score (TESS), to identify the measures and metrics most responsive to the intervention using the (TESS), Six Minute Walk Test (6MWT)[5], wearable Heel2Toe sensor technology and daily step count, and to estimate recruitment, retention, adherence, and acceptability rates.