Table 1.
Patient and tumor characteristics (n = 125)
| Bone tumors | Soft tissue sarcomas | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Total or range | (n = 77) | (n = 48) | ||
| Sex (M:F) | 75:50 | 46:31 | 29:19 | ||
| Age (years) | |||||
| Range (median) | 4–75 (25) | 4–65 (16) | 11–75 (49) | ||
| Disease stage at presentation | |||||
| Localized (M0) | 104 | 67 | 37 | ||
| Metastatic (M1) | 21 | 10 | 11 | ||
| Primary location | |||||
| Femur | 32 | Lower extremitya | 35 | ||
| Tibia | 19 | Upper extremitya | 5 | ||
| Pelvis | 11 | Trunk | 4 | ||
| Humerus | 5 | Head and neck | 4 | ||
| Other bones | 10b | ||||
| Histological type | |||||
| Osteosarcoma | 53 | MFH | 11 | ||
| Ewing’s sarcoma | 11 | Liposarcoma | 7 | ||
| MFH | 4 | Synovial sarcoma | 6 | ||
| Postradiation sarcoma | 3 | Rhabdomyosarcoma | 5 | ||
| Others | 6c | MPNST | 3 | ||
| Extraskeletal chondrosarcoma | 3 | ||||
| Othersd | 13 | ||||
MFH, malignant fi brous histiocytoma; MPNST, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
a Includes limb girdles
b Includes the ulna 2, rib 2, sacrum 2, fi bula 2, scapula 1, lumber spine 1
c Includes dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma 1, mesenchymal chondrosarcoma 1, angiosarcoma 1, parosteal osteosarcoma 1, fi brosarcoma 1, leiomyosarcoma 1
d Includes leiomyosarcoma 2, primitive neuroectodermal tumor 2, clear cell sarcoma 2, epithelioid sarcoma 2, postradiation sarcoma (MFH) 1, alveolar soft-part sarcoma 1, extraskeletal osteosarcoma 1, malignant rhabdoid tumor 1, undifferentiated sarcoma 1