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  1. Stage IVb 
  2. There are distant metastases, with spread to organs within the abdomen and/or disease in the groin lymph 
  3. nodes .
  4.  
  5. Standard Treatment  Metastatic sarcomas are usually treated with chemotherapy . Commonly used drugs include doxorubicin or ifosfamide alone and the combinations of vincristine + actinomycin-D or doxorubicin + cyclophosphamide + DTIC .
  6.  
  7. Five-Year Survival  0 to 5 percent 
  8.  
  9. Investigational 
  10. ‚Ä¢ Various doses and combinations of chemotherapy drugs are being evaluated.
  11. ‚Ä¢ Mitoxantrone , a drug similar to doxorubicin, is being studied.
  12.