Should Aggressive Surgical Local Control Be Attempted in All Patients with Metastatic or Pelvic Ewing's Sarcoma?
Table 1
Patient characteristics.
Variable (#)†
Number/percentage
Age (46)
<14
9 (20%)
≥14
37 (80%)
Sex (46)
Male
28 (61%)
Female
18 (39%)
Location (46)
Appendicular
27 (59%)
Axial
19 (41%)
Pelvic (46)
No
35 (76%)
Yes
11 (24%)
Bone or soft tissue (46)
Bone
39 (85%)
Soft tissue
7 (15%)
Metastatic disease (42)
No
29 (69%)
Yes
13 (31%)
Multicentric disease (42)
No
35 (83%)
Yes
7 (17%)
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (43)
No
6 (14%)
Yes
37 (86%)
Local radiationδ (43)
No
33 (77%)
Yes
10 (23%)
Margins (35)
Negative
26 (74%)
Positive
9 (26%)
Local recurrence (46)
No
31 (67%)
Yes
15 (33%)
Late metastatic disease (44)
No
24 (55%)
Yes
20 (45%)
Status at last followup (46)
AWOD
23 (50%)
AWED
6 (13%)
DOD
16 (35%)
DWOD
1 (2%)
AWOD: alive without disease. AWED: alive with evidence of disease. DOD: died of disease. DWOD: died without evidence of disease. †: number of patients with sufficient data for each data point. δ: local radiation either as primary local treatment of neoadjuvant.
