TY - JOUR
T1 - Primary Osteosarcoma in the Elderly Revisited
T2 - Current Concepts in Diagnosis and Treatment
AU - Kumar, Rajendra
AU - Kumar, Meena
AU - Malhotra, Kavin
AU - Patel, Shreyaskumar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/2/1
Y1 - 2018/2/1
N2 - Purpose of Review: Osteosarcoma is mostly seen in bones of children and young adults. When it occurs in older persons, the tumor is considered secondary usually complicating Paget disease or irradiated bone. However, there is a second incidence peak of primary osteosarcoma later in life when these tumors occur de novo. This article describes the clinical, imaging, and treatment of POS in older patients, including demographic data of patients from our institution. Findings: We present our experience with 920 cases of osteosarcoma that were seen between 1984 and 2003 at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, USA. Among the 868 primary osteosarcoma of bones, there were 100 (11.52%), which comprised 69% of the tumors in patients over the age of 50 years. Older patients with primary osteosarcoma tend to have relatively more common axial skeleton involvement, have more distant disease, and are difficult to treat because of concomitant comorbidities. Despite that, most adult patients treated with chemotherapy have shown good results with longer disease-free survival. Summary: A lytic bone lesion seen in radiographs of elderly patients should include primary osteosarcoma among differential diagnoses. Radical surgery and chemotherapy seem to ensure long-term disease-free survival in most cases. The elderly patients with POS in pelvis, spine, and upper extremities and those with distant disease (metastases) have worse prognosis.
AB - Purpose of Review: Osteosarcoma is mostly seen in bones of children and young adults. When it occurs in older persons, the tumor is considered secondary usually complicating Paget disease or irradiated bone. However, there is a second incidence peak of primary osteosarcoma later in life when these tumors occur de novo. This article describes the clinical, imaging, and treatment of POS in older patients, including demographic data of patients from our institution. Findings: We present our experience with 920 cases of osteosarcoma that were seen between 1984 and 2003 at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, USA. Among the 868 primary osteosarcoma of bones, there were 100 (11.52%), which comprised 69% of the tumors in patients over the age of 50 years. Older patients with primary osteosarcoma tend to have relatively more common axial skeleton involvement, have more distant disease, and are difficult to treat because of concomitant comorbidities. Despite that, most adult patients treated with chemotherapy have shown good results with longer disease-free survival. Summary: A lytic bone lesion seen in radiographs of elderly patients should include primary osteosarcoma among differential diagnoses. Radical surgery and chemotherapy seem to ensure long-term disease-free survival in most cases. The elderly patients with POS in pelvis, spine, and upper extremities and those with distant disease (metastases) have worse prognosis.
KW - Osteosarcoma
KW - Primary osteosarcoma
KW - Primary osteosarcoma in adults
KW - Primary osteosarcoma in older persons
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U2 - 10.1007/s11912-018-0658-1
DO - 10.1007/s11912-018-0658-1
M3 - Review article
C2 - 29492676
AN - SCOPUS:85042791549
SN - 1523-3790
VL - 20
JO - Current oncology reports
JF - Current oncology reports
IS - 2
M1 - 13
ER -