Clinical Study

Should Aggressive Surgical Local Control Be Attempted in All Patients with Metastatic or Pelvic Ewing's Sarcoma?

Table 9

Determination of independent variables for Overall Survival (OS) with multivariate Cox regression analysis.

Multivariate Cox Regression OS analysis of covariates
VariableHR95% CI value

Age0.8703
 <141.00
 ≥140.870.16–4.63
Metastatic disease0.6000
 No1.00
 Yes1.570.29–8.35
Multicentric-metastatic disease0.0291
 No1.00
 Yes8.231.24–54.64
Bone or soft tissue0.2187
 Bone1.00
 Soft tissue2.330.61–8.95
Local recurrence0.0002
 No1.00
 Yes11.643.24–41.74

: statistically significant independent variable on overall survival.