Table 2.
Relationship between oncological outcomes and 2-year local recurrence-free rates.
| Oncological outcomes | 2-year LR over total | 2-year LRFR (%) | HR | 95% CI | p value | |
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| Tumor type | Myxofibrosarcoma | 7/33 | 79 | |||
| Gender | Male | 4/17 | 76 | 2.33 | 0.24–22.44 | 0.46 |
| Female | 1/12 | 92 | ||||
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| Age | ≤60 years old | 1/11 | 91 | 0.50 | 0.05–4.80 | 0.55 |
| >60 years old | 4/18 | 78 | ||||
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| Tumor size | ≤10 cm | 7/20 | 65 | N/A∗∗ | 44–86%∗∗ | 0.02∗∗ |
| >10 cm | 0/13 | 100 | ||||
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| Margin size | Negative ≤0.1 cm | 3/8 | 63 | 7.97 | 0.83–76.79 | 0.07 |
| Negative >0.1 cm | 1/18 | 94 | ||||
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| Surgical margins | Positive | 3/7 | 57 | — | — | — |
| Close margins∗ | 3/8 | 63 | 0.95 | 0.19–4.73 | 0.95 | |
| Negative >0.1 cm | 1/18 | 94 | 0.11 | 0.01–1.07 | 0.06 | |
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| Grouped surgical margins | Positive or close∗ | 6/13 | 54 | 11.74 | 1.41–97.74 | 0.02 |
| Negative >0.1 cm | 1/20 | 95 | ||||
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| Tumor depth | Subcutaneous | 5/17 | 71 | 2.56 | 0.50–13.21 | 0.26 |
| Intramuscular | 2/16 | 88 | ||||
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| Tumor character | Well-circumscribed | 2/18 | 89 | 0.30 | 0.06–1.54 | 0.15 |
| Infiltrative | 5/15 | 67 | ||||
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| Re-resection intraoperatively† | Re-resection done | 2/4 | 50 | N/A∗∗ | 1–99% | 0.19∗∗ |
| Re-resection not done | 0/3 | 0 | ||||
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| Re-resection postoperativelyˆ | Re-resection done | 0/4 | 100 | N/A∗∗ | 100%∗∗ | 0.07∗∗ |
| Re-resection not done | 2/3 | 67% | ||||
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| Adjuvant therapy | Chemotherapy and radiotherapy | 0/17 | 100% | N/A∗∗ | 100%∗∗ | 0.001∗∗ |
| Chemotherapy alone | 3/4 | 25% | ||||
| Radiotherapy alone | 2/8 | 75% | ||||
| No treatment | 2/4 | 50% | ||||
Note. LRFR = 2-year local recurrence-free rate; LR = local recurrence; HR = hazard ratio; CI = confidence interval. ∗Close margins = negative margins ≤0.1 cm; ∗∗the Kaplan–Meier log-ranked test was used to assess statistical significance; †re-resections were done intraoperatively due to positive intraoperative pathology report; ˆre-resections were done postopearatively due to positive final pathology report.