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Feasibility report of conservative surgery, perioperative high-dose-rate brachytherapy (PHDRB), and low-to-moderate dose external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) in pediatric sarcomas
This study was undertaken to determine the feasibility of perioperative
high-dose-rate brachytherapy (PHDRB) as an accelerated boost in patients with
pediatric sarcomas. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Five pediatric patients (ages 7-16)
with soft tissue sarcomas (STS) or soft tissue recurrences of previously treated
osteosarcomas were treated with surgical resection and PHDRB (16-24 Gy) for R0-R1
resections. Patients with STS and osteosarcomas received 27 Gy and 45 Gy of EBRT
postoperatively. RESULTS: After a median follow-up of 27 months (range, 12-50)
all the patients remain locally controlled. Only 1 patient developed regrowth of
pulmonary metastases and died of distant disease at 16 months. CONCLUSIONS: The
use of PHDRB is safe in the short-term in this pediatric population. Only 1
patient suffered a partial wound dehiscence that may not be entirely related to
PHDRB. Patients with recurrent osteosarcomas can be treated in a fashion similar
to their adult soft tissue counterparts and avoid limb amputation. Younger
patients with STS may achieve local control and prevent growth retardation with a
combination of PHDRB and moderate doses of EBR
Howard's War on Terror: A Conceivable, Communicable and Coercive Foreign Policy Discourse
This article explores the relationship between language and political possibility. It is argued that John Howard’s language from 11 September 2001 to mid 2003 helped to enable the ‘War on Terror’ in an Australian context in three principal ways. Firstly, through contingent and contestable constructions of Australia, the world and their relationship, Howard’s language made interventionism conceivable. Secondly, emphasising shared values, mateship and mutual sacrifice in war, Howard embedded his foreign policy discourse in the cultural terrain of ‘mainstream Australia’, specifically framing a foreign policy discourse that was communicable to ‘battlers’ and disillusioned ‘Hansonites’. Thirdly, positioning alternatives as ‘un-Australian’, Howard’s language was particularly coercive, silencing potential oppositional voices
Foreign policy and political possibility
This article explores the relationship between foreign policy and political possibility in two parts. First, the relationship between foreign policy and political possibility is theorized around three analytical moments: political possibility is linked to the framing of conceivable, communicable and coercive foreign policy. Second, this framework is developed and demonstrated through a brief analysis of Coalition foreign policy in the War on Terror, considering American, British and Australian foreign policy between 2001 and 2003. This analysis dissects distinct and divergent Coalition foreign policies through a linked three-part conceptualization of political possibility. It enables an understanding of how the War on Terror was rendered possible through the construction of foreign policy in thinkable, resonant and ultimately dominant terms. The article concludes by looking to the wider analytical applicability of this particular theorization of the relationship between foreign policy and political possibility