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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2020 Oct 18;28(5):2700–2704. doi: 10.1245/s10434-020-09213-y

Table 2.

Risk of femoral fracture based on patient, tumor, and treatment variables.

Crude risk Cumulative risk over 5 years 95% CI P value
Gender
 Female 5/46 11.4% 4.4–29.8% 0.02
 Male 2/99 2.3% 0.6–9.0%
Age
 Age < 60 years 1/82 1.2% 0.2–8.7 0.02
 Age ≥ 60 years 6/63 10.3% 4.4–24.2%
Compartment
 Anterior 6/62 9.7% 4.1–22.8% 0.02
 Other 1/83 1.4% 0.2–10.1%
Tumor size
 < 10 cm 1/61 0% n/a 0.07
 ≥ 10 cm 6/84 9.2% 4.2–20.2%
Periosteal stripping
 Present 3/28 12.6% 4.2–37.5% 0.06
 Absent 4/117 3.3% 1.1–10.1%
Dose
 ≤ 60 Gy 1/35 3.3% 0.5–22.9% 0.53
 > 60 Gy 6/110 5.4% 2.2–12.8%
Chemotherapy
 No chemotherapy 5/94 5.3% 2.0–13.9% 0.82
 Chemotherapy 2/51 4.0% 1–15.6%
IMRT constraints utilized
 No (2004–2010) 6/84 7.4% 3.1–17.6% 0.11
 Yes (2011–2016) 1/61 1.8% 0.3–12.2%