Table 3.

Clinical outcome according to primary local treatment of 25 chordoma patients.

Treatment	No.	Local P or R	Distant metastases	NED*	AWD*	Dead*
Wide S alone	5	1	2	1 (20)	1 (11)	3 (2 NED) (3-123)
Intralesional S alone	14	13	2	1 (8)	9 (4-123)	4 (26-149)
Wide S+RT	-	-	-	-	-	-
Intralesional S+RT	3	3	2	-	2 (102-130)	1 (62)
Diagnostic biopsy only	3	1	1		2 (6-63)	1 (2)
RT alone	-	-	-	-	-	-

* months (range)

S: surgery; RT: radiotherapy: P: progression; R: recurrence; NED: not evidence of disease; AWD: alive with disease.