Ewing's Sarcoma: Prognosis
There isn't much agreement with the prognosis of a patient with Ewing's sarcoma. The following are the more common numbers that we have encountered:
- 70% 5-year survival for children with nonmetastatic disease (source for 74%)
- 50% 5-year survival for adults with nonmetastatic disease (source for 60%)
- 30% 5-year survival for patients with metastatic disease (source for 30%; source for 35%; source for 33% in adults)
Other papers/abstracts that discuss prognosis of patients with Ewing's sarcoma include:
- The NCI Health Professional PDQ for ES discusses the prognosis of various cases of disease.
- 2003 Med. Pediatr. Oncol. abstract stating that relapsing with Ewing's sarcoma is usually fatal.
- 2003 abstract stating that the initial presentation of the disease is the only predictor of survival in a small group of adult patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering with Ewing's sarcoma.
- 2003 Cancer abstract based on St Jude's Children Hospital experience 1997-99 for recurrent Ewing's sarcoma.
- 2001 Clin. Orthop. abstract which discusses the role of surgery and resection margins for Ewing's sarcomas; wide resection is better.
- 1998 Ann. Oncol. abstract discussing the poor prognosis of metastatic Ewing's sarcoma based on the European Intergroup Cooperative Ewing Sarcoma Studies.
- 1997 J. Clin. Oncol. abstract which states that chemo-induced tumor necrosis is probably a good prognostic factor.