What are the prognostic factors for relapse in patients with nonmetastatic Ewing's sarcoma of bone treated with adjuvant chemotherapy?
Chemotherapy-induced necrosis is the most important prognostic factor in surgically treated patients with nonmetastatic Ewing's sarcoma.
The prognosis in cases of nonmetastatic Ewing's sarcoma is influenced by many different clinical and hematologic variables, all of which are to be considered when patients are being stratified according to the risk of relapse. In surgically treated patients, the most important prognostic factor is chemotherapy-induced necrosis.
Bacci et al. (Sat,) studied this question.