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Osteosarcoma: the COSS experience

Bielack, Stefan and Jürgens, Herbert and Jundt, Gernot and Kevric, Matthias and Kühne, Thomas and Reichardt, Peter and Zoubek, Andreas and Werner, Mathias and Winkelmann, Winfried and Kotz, Rainer. (2009) Osteosarcoma: the COSS experience. Cancer treatment and research, 152. pp. 289-308.

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Abstract

COSS, the interdisciplinary Cooperative German-Austrian-Swiss Osteosarcoma Study Group, was founded in 1977 and has since registered some 3,500 bone sarcoma patients from over 200 institutions. For the purpose of the Pediatric and Adolescent Osteosarcoma Conference in Houston, March 2008, the outcomes of 2,464 consecutive patients with high-grade central osteosarcoma, who had been diagnosed between 1980 and 2005 and had been treated on neoadjuvant COSS protocols, were reviewed. Intended treatment had included surgery and multidrug chemotherapy, with high-dose methotrexate, doxorubicin, cisplatin, and ifosfamide being used in most protocols. After a median follow-up of 7.31 years for 1,654 survivors, 5- and 10-year survival estimates were 0.748/0.695 for 2,017 patients with localized extremity tumors and 0.369/0.317 for 444 patients with axial tumors or/and primary metastases, respectively. Tumor response to preoperative chemotherapy was of independent prognostic significance. Over the years, there was a major shift from amputation towards limb-salvage. This development was least evident for patients below the age of 10. While survival expectancies improved from the first to the second half of the recruitment period, no further improvement was evident within the latter period. In the manuscript, the results described above are discussed based on the findings of the previous analyses of our group.
Faculties and Departments:03 Faculty of Medicine > Bereich Querschnittsfächer (Klinik) > Pathologie USB
03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Klinische Forschung > Bereich Querschnittsfächer (Klinik) > Pathologie USB
03 Faculty of Medicine > Bereich Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde (Klinik) > Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde (UKBB) > Pädiatrische Hämatologie und Onkologie (von der Weid)
03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Klinische Forschung > Bereich Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde (Klinik) > Kinder- und Jugendheilkunde (UKBB) > Pädiatrische Hämatologie und Onkologie (von der Weid)
UniBasel Contributors:Kühne, Thomas and Jundt, Gernot
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Further Journal Contribution
Note:Also published in: Pediatric and adolescent osteosarcoma. - New York : Springer, 2010. - S. 289-308 -- Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal item
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