Open AccessDoes Resection of the Primary Tumor Improve Survival in Patients With Metastatic Chondrosarcoma?
Author(s) -
Kunpeng Song,
Jian Song,
Feiyan Chen,
Kai-Yuan Lin,
Xin Ma,
Jianyuan Jiang
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1097/corr.0000000000000632
Subject(s) - medicine , chondrosarcoma , primary tumor , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , amputation , surveillance, epidemiology, and end results , confounding , cohort , surgery , survival analysis , cancer , oncology , confidence interval , metastasis , cancer registry
Although surgical resection or amputation has been the mainstay of localized chondrosarcoma management for many decades, its efficacy in patients with metastatic chondrosarcoma remains unknown, and likewise we do not know whether there are any tumor- or patient-related factors associated with better survival after surgery for metastatic chondrosarcoma.