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How do different treatment modalities affect the five-year survival rate in patients with Ewing's sarcoma?
How do different treatment modalities affect the five-year survival rate in patients with Ewing's sarcoma?
Radiotherapy plus chemotherapy appears superior to radiotherapy alone for Ewing's sarcoma, though overall five-year survival remains poor at 7%.
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May support adding chemotherapy to radiotherapy in Ewing sarcoma; leaves open efficacy in prospective trials.
Our paper describes the clinical features, roentgenographic manifestations, pathology and the results of various modalities of treatments of 46 cases of Ewing's sarcoma seen and treated at Henry Ford Hospital during the past 36 years. Surgery alone (4 cases) produced a 25% five-year survival rate, whereas radiotherapy alone (33 cases) yielded only a 3% five-year survival rate. Radiotherapy plus chemotherapy (9 cases) have proven to be far superior than radiotherapy alone. The overall five-year survival rate of our series is only 7%.
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