Kaan Helvaci, Ayşe Demirci, Necati Alkis, Saadet Tokluoglu, Şengül Cangür, Ali Inal, Oznur Bal, Abdurrahman Isikdogan, Mevlude Inanc, Berna Oksuzoglu, Fisun Ardic Yukruk, Ayse Durnali, Mehmet Metin Seker, Tulay Akman, and [Durnali, Ayse -- Alkis, Necati -- Bal, Oznur -- Demirci, Ayse -- Helvaci, Kaan -- Oksuzoglu, Berna] Dr AY Ankara Oncol Training & Res Hosp, Dept Med Oncol, TR-06200 Ankara, Turkey -- [Cangur, Sengul] Duzce Univ, Fac Med, Dept Biostat & Med Informat, Duzce, Turkey -- [Yukruk, Fisun Ardic] Dr AY Ankara Oncol Training & Res Hosp, Dept Pathol, TR-06200 Ankara, Turkey -- [Inal, Ali -- Isikdogan, Abdurrahman] Dicle Univ, Fac Med, Dept Med Oncol, Diyarbakir, Turkey -- [Tokluoglu, Saadet] Guven Hosp, Dept Med Oncol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Seker, Mehmet Metin] Cumhuriyet Univ, Fac Med, Dept Med Oncol, Sivas, Turkey -- [Akman, Tulay] Dokuz Eylul Univ, Fac Med, Dept Med Oncol, Izmir, Turkey -- [Inanc, Mevlude] Erciyes Univ, Fac Med, Dept Med Oncol, Kayseri, Turkey
WOS: 000323662900059, PubMed ID: 23749307, The aim of this retrospective, multicenter study was to evaluate clinicopathological characteristics, prognostic factors and treatment outcomes of teenage and adult patients with high-grade osteosarcoma. A total of 240 osteosarcoma patients who were diagnosed and treated from March 1995 to September 2011 were analyzed. Median age was 20 years (range 13-74 years), and 153 patients (63.8 %) were male. Primary tumor localization was extremity in 204 patients (85.4 %), trunk in 21 patients (8.8 %) and head and neck region in 14 patients (5.9 %). According to American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system, 186 patients (77.5 %) were stage II, 3 (1.3 %) were stage III and 48 (20.0 %) were stage IV. Median overall survival (OS) was 55 months (95 % CI 36.8-73.1 months). OS after 2, 5 and 10 years were 67, 49 and 42 %, respectively. Univariable analysis for OS showed that male gender (p = 0.032), high baseline lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level (p < 0.001), high baseline serum alkaline phosphatase level (p = 0.002), telangiectatic subtype (p = 0.023), presence of metastasis at diagnosis (p < 0.001), presence of tumor positive margins after primary surgery (p = 0.015), poor pathological response to preoperative chemotherapy (p = 0.006) and presence of recurrent disease during follow-up period (p < 0.001) were significantly associated with poor survival. Patientswho received postoperative methotrexate plus doxorubicin plus cisplatin (M + A + P) combination regimen (p = 0.019), underwent surgery for recurrent disease (p < 0.001) and received chemotherapy for recurrent disease (p < 0.001) had longer OS. Inmultivariable analysis for OS, only high LDH level (p = 0.002) and the presence of metastasis at diagnosis (p = 0.011) were associated with poor OS, whereas the patients who received chemotherapy for recurrent disease had a longer OS (p = 0.009).