Table 2.

Studies that we obtained height at diagnosis and/or birth-weight data on osteosarcoma cases.

Author/Year	Case Population	Number of cases
		Ht	BW
Scranton et al. 1975 [19]	Children’s Hospital and Presbyterian-University Hospital of Pittsburgh, PA, USA	43	—
Pui et al. 1987 [29]	St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, TN, USA	168	—
Unpublished case data†	St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, TN, USA	214	242
Ruza et al. 2003 [22]	Department of Pediatrics, University Clinic of Navarra, Spain	58	—
Unpublished case data‡	Department of Pediatrics, University Clinic of Navarra, Spain	64	—
Cotterill et al. 2004 [23]	MRC Clinical Trials Unit, Cambridge and UKCCSG Data Centre, Leicester, UK	364	—
Troisi et al. 2006 [18]	Orthopaedic surgery departments in 10 USA medical centers*	156	144
Schuz & Forman, 2007 [34]	Nationwide GCCR, University of Mainz, Germany	—	48
Total:		1067	434

Ht = height at diagnosis; BW = birth-weight; MRC = Medical Research Council; UKCCSG = United Kingdom Children’s Cancer Study Group;

^*medical centers: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; Creighton University/St Joseph’s Hospital and University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE; Children’s National Medical Center and Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC; University of Chicago and Rush Presbyterian St Luke’s, Chicago, IL; University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH; GCCR = German Childhood Cancer Registry; italics = unpublished data;

^†patient height data was collected for cases diagnosed between 1985 and 2007, and birth-weight data for cases diagnosed between 1966 and 2006;

^‡patient data was collected between 2001 and 2008