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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2014 Feb 21;21(6):1948–1955. doi: 10.1245/s10434-014-3550-8

TABLE 1.

Site and management of local recurrences and distant metastases, and survival outcomes of 21 patients with locally recurrent osteosarcoma after limb-sparing surgerya

Metastases at
diagnosis
Metastases at local relapse Local relapse Metastases after local relapse Survival outcomes
Pati
ent
No.
Previous
cancer
Site Site Site Surgical
margins
Site Current
status
OS
(years)
LRFS
(years)
Post-
recurrence
survival
(years)
1 Lung (multiple) * Soft tissue ≥1cm Lung (multiple, new), Inguinal nodes *** DOD 2.7 1.5 1.3
2 Lung (solitary) * Bone ≥1cm NED 18.2 6.1 12.1
3 Lung (multiple) * Soft tissue <1cm DOD 2.2 1.4 0.9
4 Lung (multiple) * Soft tissue <1cm Lung (multiple, new), Axilla *** DOD 1.5 1.1 0.4
5 Lung (multiple) * Lung (multiple, new), Bone (rib) * Soft tissue ≥1cm Lung (multiple, new) *** DOD 2.1 1 1.1
6 Ost Bone * Soft tissue ≥1cm Lung (multiple, new), Mediastinum *** DOD 7.9 2.5 5.4
7 Lung (multiple) * Soft tissue No surgery DOD 1.5 1.1 0.4
8 Bone ≥1cm DOCb 14 10.4 3.6
9 Rb Bone <1cm Lung (multiple), Bone (spine) *** AWD 3.2 2 1.3
10 Ost Lung (multiple) ** Lung (solitary, new) * Soft tissue ≥1cm Lung (solitary, new) * AWD 4.1 2.3 1.8
11 Lung (solitary, new) * Soft tissue No surgery Lung (multiple, new) *** DOD 1.9 1.4 0.5
12 Soft tissue ≥1cm NED 11.7 4 7.7
13 Lung (solitary) * Soft tissue ≥1cm Lung (multiple, new) * NED 9.3 1.3 8.0
14 Lung (multiple) ** Lung (multiple, new) *** Soft tissue Positive DOD 1.2 0.9 0.3
15 Bone * Bone (femur, new) *** Soft tissue ≥1cm Lung (multiple), Bone (rib, new) *** DOD 1.4 0.6 0.8
16 Lung (multiple) * Lung (solitary, new) * Soft tissue Positive Lung (solitary, new) *** DOD 2.2 1.3 0.9
17 Lung (solitary) * Soft tissue ≥1cm Bone (spine) *** AWD 3.3 2.6 0.7
18 Lung (multiple) * Soft tissue <1cm DOD 1.2 0.9 0.3
a Lung (multiple) * Lung (multiple, new) *** Soft tissue No surgery DOD 1.7 1.2 0.5
b Lung (multiple) * Bone No surgery Lung (multiple, new), Bone (rib, spine) *** DOD 1.6 0.8 0.9
c Lung (multiple) *** Soft tissue No surgery DOD 1.4 1.2 0.2
a

Patients 1–18 had local recurrence proven on histology; patients a–c (italics) were diagnosed by imaging only.

b

Developed acute myeloid leukemia and breast cancer.

*

Completely resected;

**

Resolved with chemotherapy;

***

Not resected.

Rb, retinoblastoma; Ost, osteosarcoma; OS, overall survival; LRFS, local recurrence-free survival; DOD, died of disease; NED, no evidence of disease; AWD, alive with disease; DOC died of other causes.