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Published on: October 14, 2016
Osteosarcoma: improvement in survival limited to high-grade patients only
Muhammad Umar Jawad1, Michael C Cheung, Jennifer Clarke
1Department of Orthopaedics, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami Hospital, 4th Floor, 1400 NW, 12th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136, USA.
Background:
We sought to identify the significant prognostic parameters of patients with osteosarcoma over the past three decades using a population-based registry.
Methods:
A total of 3765 patients with osteosarcoma were identified in the SEER database. Information regarding patient demographics, clinical and treatment characteristics, cause of death and survival were extracted. Kaplan-Meier, Log-Rank, and Cox regression were used for analysis.
Results:
On multivariate analysis only age group '<25 years', 'local' stage and 'low' grade, 'appendicular skeleton' and employment of 'surgical resection' showed a disease-specific survival benefit with a P value < 0.001. The long-term survival improved in the interval from 1973 to 1985 from approximately 55 to 65% but subsequent improvement has been limited only to patients with high-grade disease.
Conclusion:
When comparing survival rates by decade of diagnosis, it appears that improvement in survival since 1985 is limited to patients with high-grade disease only.
Level Of Evidence:
The level of evidence for this article is 2.
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