Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the Thoracic Wall: More Prone to Higher Mortality, and Local Recurrence—A Single Institution Long-Term Follow-up Study

Table 3

Analyses of unfavorable prognostic factors for survival and local control.

	Overall survival		Local recurrence free rate
Factors	HR		HR
	Crude	Adjusted	Crude	Adjusted
	(95% CI)	(95% CI)	(95% CI)	(95% CI)
Resection
Marginal/intralesional	4,54 (2.44-8.45)	3,26 (1.30-8.16)	1,97 (0.97-4.00)	1,24 (0,43-3,60)
Malignancy grade
High		-		-

HR: hazard ratio.
CI: confidence interval.
was adjusted for age, sex, tumor size, depth, malignancy grade, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Malignancy grade was adjusted for age, sex, tumor size, depth, resection type, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy.
of the patients with low grade tumors died.
recurrence only occurred in patients with high grade tumors.