Patterns of Perioperative Treatment and Survival of Localized, Resected, Intermediate- or High-Grade Soft Tissue Sarcoma: A 2000–2017 Netherlands Cancer Registry Database Analysis
Table 1
Patient characteristics for grade II and III resected soft tissue sarcoma in the Netherlands between 2000 and 2017.
Characteristics
Total no. of patients
4957
Median follow-up (years)
10.0, 95% CI 9.6–10.4
Sex
Male
2711 (54.7%)
Female
2246 (45.3%)
Age (years)
<40
689 (13.9%)
40–49
563 (11.4%)
50–59
808 (16.3%)
60–69
1020 (20.6%)
≥70
1877 (37.9%)
Tumor location
Lower extremity
1954 (39.4%)
Upper extremity
705 (14.2%)
Trunk
1529 (30.8%)
Head and neck
727 (14.7%)
Heart/mediastinum/pleura
42 (0.8%)
Grade
Intermediate (II)
1712 (34.5%)
High (III)
3245 (65.5%)
Tumor size
≤5 cm
1654 (33.4%)
>5 cm
2208 (44.5%)
Size unknown/missing
1095 (22.1%)
Tumor depth
Superficial
2542 (51.3%)
Deep
1655 (33.4%)
Depth unknown/missing
760 (15.3%)
Radicality of the surgery
R0
2800 (56.5%)
R1/R2
785 (15.8%)
Radicality unknown/missing
1372 (27.7%)
606 tumors with unknown grade and of undifferentiated subtype were regraded as grade III tumors.
