[Survival and prognosis in adjuvant chemotherapy for osteogenic sarcoma patients]

The effect of adjuvant chemotherapy on survival and prognosis in osteogenic sarcoma versus basic clinico-roentgenomorphological characteristics of tumor was studied in 108 cases. Prognosis was found to depend on patient's age, site and size of tumor, but mainly on the roentgeno-morphological pattern of the latter. Osteolytic form appeared to have a better course in cases of adjuvant chemotherapy. This was matched by osteoplastic form requiring surgical treatment only. The results suggest a strictly differentiated approach to selection of treatment modality, particularly in cases of post-operative chemotherapy.