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AUGUST 30, 2016

First Epidemiological Data on Chest Wall Ewing Sarcoma Released

Researchers have published what is the largest database analysis to date of patients with chest wall Ewing sarcoma (J Surg Res 2016;294:475-480, PMID: 27565085). Their analysis documents significant improvements in overall survival over the past 40 years as well as gender differences in disease outcomes, among other findings.

The researchers found 0.1 per million cases of chest wall Ewing sarcoma in the United States, saying this rare incidence has limited studies to small populations of