Research Article

Survey of Paediatric Oncologists and Pathologists regarding Their Views and Experiences with Variant Translocations in Ewing and Ewing-Like Sarcoma: A Report of the Children’s Oncology Group

Table 1

Demographics of respondents.

DemographicsCount of respondents (%)

Discipline
 Pediatric/medical oncologists85 (78.0)
 W/ special interest in sarcomas49 (57.6)
 W/o special interest in sarcomas36 (42.4)
 Surgical pathologists24 (22.0)
 W/ special interest in sarcomas23 (95.8)
 W/o special interest in sarcomas1 (4.2)
 Sarcoma specialists72 (66.1)
 Nonsarcoma specialists37 (33.9)

Current location of practise
 North America102 (93.6)
 Europe3 (2.8)
 Asia and Pacific4 (3.7)

Type of practice
 Academic98 (89.9)
 Private/community11 (10.1)

Duration after completion of training (years)
 1–525 (22.9)
 6–1034 (31.2)
 11–1514 (12.8)
 >1536 (33.0)

Number of newly diagnosed bone and soft tissue sarcoma patients treated each year
 0–1027 (24.8)
 11–2534 (31.2)
 26–5019 (17.4)
 51–1008 (7.3)
 >10021 (19.3)

Percentage of time spent on basic science research
 050 (45.9)
 1–20%22 (20.2)
 21–60%19 (17.4)
 61–100%18 (16.5)