Second malignancies in patients surviving osteosarcoma

Pediatr Pathol. 1987;7(2):145-50. doi: 10.1080/15513818709177837.

Abstract

Sixty-nine patients were identified who had survived for at least 10 years after therapy for ordinary-type intramedullary osteosarcoma and for whom adequate follow-up data were available to determine whether second malignancies had developed. Eight patients (11.6%) had developed second malignant tumors, 5 of whom had died of their second malignancies. Although these figures are higher than those expected for cancer incidence and death rates, the differences are not statistically significant.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Child
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Metastasis*
  • Osteosarcoma / mortality
  • Osteosarcoma / pathology*