Chondrosarcoma patient characteristics, management, and outcomes based on over 5,000 cases from the National Cancer Database (NCDB)
Ottesen TD, Shultz BN, Munger AM, Amick M, Toombs CS, Friedaender GE, Grauer JN. Chondrosarcoma patient characteristics, management, and outcomes based on over 5,000 cases from the National Cancer Database (NCDB). PLOS ONE 2022, 17: e0268215. PMID: 35901087, PMCID: PMC9333210, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0268215.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNational Cancer DatabaseLong-term survivalMultivariate Cox analysisDistant metastasisSurgical treatmentChondrosarcoma patientsCox analysisCancer DatabaseLong-term survival dataKaplan-Meier survival curvesKaplan-Meier survival analysisPrimary osseous tumorsMainstay of treatmentExtent of diseasePoor prognostic factorPrimary tumor siteAge categoriesLikelihood of deathAxial involvementPatient characteristicsWorse survivalPrognostic factorsSurgical excisionMale sexOsseous tumors