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Multimodal treatment of craniofacial osteosarcoma with high-grade histology. A single-center experience over 35 years

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High-grade craniofacial osteosarcoma (CFOS) is an aggressive malignancy with a poor prognosis. Our goals were to evaluate treatment outcomes in those treated at a single referral institution over 35 years and to compare our results to the available literature. A retrospective analysis of all 42 patients treated between 1980 and 2015 at Oslo University Hospital, Norway, identified in a prospectively collected database, was conducted. Mean follow-up was 79.6 months. Overall survival at 2 and 5 years was 70.5 and 44.7%, respectively. The corresponding disease-specific survival rates were 73.0 and 49.8%. Treatment was surgery only in eight cases. Additional therapy was administered in 34 patients: chemotherapy in nine, radiotherapy in seven, and a combination of these in 18 cases. Stratified analysis by resection margins demonstrated significantly better survival at 2 and 5 years after radical surgical treatment. Neoadjuvant chemotherapy and subsequent adequate surgery resulted in better survival than surgery alone. Half of the patients either had a primary or familial cancer predisposition. This is the largest single-center study conducted on high-grade CFOS to date. Our experience indicates that neoadjuvant chemotherapy with complete surgical resection significantly improved survival, compared to surgery alone.

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The authors would like to thank Dr. Kjetil Berner and Dr. Olga Zaikova for their valuable feedback. They would also like to extend their gratitude to Trine Thoresen for maintaining the sarcoma database at the Norwegian Radium Hospital.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet, 4950 Nydalen, Oslo, 0424, Norway

    Marton König & Torstein R. Meling

  2. Department of Neurology, Ostfold Hospital Trust, 300, Gralum, 1714, Norway

    Marton König

  3. Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, 1711 Blindern, Oslo, 0318, Norway

    Marton König, Terje A. Osnes, Øyvind S. Bruland & Torstein R. Meling

  4. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Oslo University Hospital - Rikshospitalet, 4950 Nydalen, 0424, Oslo, Norway

    Terje A. Osnes

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  6. Department of Oncology, Oslo University Hospital - Radiumhospitalet, 4950 Nydalen, Oslo, 0424, Norway

    Øyvind S. Bruland & Kirsten Sundby Hall

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König, M., Osnes, T.A., Lobmaier, I. et al. Multimodal treatment of craniofacial osteosarcoma with high-grade histology. A single-center experience over 35 years. Neurosurg Rev 40, 449–460 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10143-016-0802-z

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