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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Mohammadmain Rezazadehsaatlou[2].

Overview

Common complications of osteosarcoma include pathologic fracture and metastasis. Pre-treatment factors that influence outcome of the osteosarcoma are primary tumor site, size of the primary tumor, and site of metastasis. After administration of preoperative chemotherapy, factors that influence outcome of the osteosarcoma are adequacy of tumor resection and necrosis following induction or neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The 5 year survival rate of osteosarcoma after adequate therapy is approximately 60-80%.

Natural History, Complications, and Prognosis

Complications

Complications Likelihood Timeframe
Chemotherapy-related adverse effects High Variable
Radiation-related secondary sarcoma High Long term
Local recurrence Medium Variable
Lung metastases Medium Variable
Other bone metastases Medium Variable

Prognosis

  • The 5-year disease-free survival rates after surgical treatment with and without the use of chemotherapy 15-20% and 75-80%, respectively.
  • And the likelihood of local recurrence is 5-7% and is related to surgical resection margins and responsiveness to chemotherapy.
  • Pre-treatment factors that influence outcome of the osteosarcoma include the following:
  1. Primary tumor site
  2. Size of the primary tumor

1: Primary tumor site

Pelvis

Craniofacial/head and neck

Extraskeletal

  • With current combined-modality therapy, the outcome for patients with extraskeletal osteosarcoma appears to be similar to that for patients with primary tumors of bone.

2: Size of the primary tumor

  • Larger tumors have a worse prognosis than smaller tumors.
  • Tumor size has been assessed by the longest single dimension, by the cross-sectional area, or by an estimate of tumor volume.
  • All have correlated with outcome.
  • Serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), which also correlates with the outcome, is a likely surrogate for tumor volume.

Metastatic disease

  • Patients with localized disease have a much better prognosis than do patients with overt metastatic disease.
  • As many as 20% of patients will have radiographically detectable metastases at diagnosis, with the lung being the most common site.
  • The prognosis for patients with metastatic disease appears to be determined largely by the site, the number of metastases, and the surgical resectability of the metastatic disease:

Site of metastases

Number of metastases

  • Patients with skip metastases (at least two discontinuous lesions in the same bone) have been reported to have poor prognosis.
  • Skip metastasis in a bone other than the primary bone should be considered systemic metastasis.
  • Patients with multifocal osteosarcoma (defined as multiple bone lesions without a clear primary tumor) have an extremely poor prognosis.

Age

  • After administration of preoperative chemotherapy, factors that influence outcome include the following:

Adequacy of tumor resection

  • Resectability of the tumor is a critical prognostic feature because osteosarcoma is relatively resistant to radiation therapy.
  • Complete resection of the primary tumor and any skip lesions with adequate margins is generally considered essential for cure.
  • A retrospective review of patients with craniofacial osteosarcoma performed by the German-Austrian-Swiss osteosarcoma cooperative group reported that incomplete surgical resection was associated with inferior survival probability.

Necrosis following induction or neoadjuvant chemotherapy

  • Most treatment protocols for osteosarcoma use an initial period of systemic chemotherapy before definitive resection of the primary tumor (or resection of sites of metastases).
  • The pathologist assesses necrosis in the resected tumor.
  • Patients with at least 90% necrosis in the primary tumor after induction chemotherapy have a better prognosis than those with less necrosis.
  • Patients with less necrosis (<90%) in the primary tumor following initial chemotherapy have a higher rate of recurrence within the first 2 years compared with patients with a more favorable amount of necrosis (≥90%).
  • Less necrosis should not be interpreted to mean that chemotherapy has been ineffective; cure rates for patients with little or no necrosis following induction chemotherapy are much higher than cure rates for patients who receive no chemotherapy.

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