Table 1.

Characteristics of patients with lower extremity bone sarcoma.

	Amputation	Limb preservation	P-value
No. of subjects	34	48
Age (mean ± SD, range)	27.6 ± 10.4 (14.9–49.9)	25.6 ± 8.3 (14.0–49.5)	0.51
Sex (M)	18 (52.9%)	25 (52.1%)	0.94
Age at surgery (mean, SD, range)	19.5 ± 9.7 (7.0–46.7)	20.0 ± 7.7 (9.8–44.6)	0.30
Years since surgery (mean, SD, range)	8.1 ± 6.6 (1.1–23.4)	5.6 ± 4.0 (1.1–16.9)	0.20
Employment
Employed	16 (47.1%)	31 (64.6%)	0.11
Marital status
Married	5 (14.7%)	14 (29.2%)	0.58
Education
Less than high school	8	11	0.03
Graduated high school	6	9
Higher than high school	20	27
Pain (mean, SD, range)	2.5 ± 2.6 (0–10)	2.1 ± 2.5 (0–8)	0.39
Activity interference (mean, SD, range)	2.1 ± 2.5 (0–10)	2.2 ± 2.6 (0–9)	0.92
Sleep interference (mean, SD, range)	1.7 ± 2.6 (0–10)	1.2 ± 2.0 (0–7)	0.45