EDITING: Re: prognosis and what it takes into account

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</div>: Does this take into account your age and fitness?Dear Susan,yes it does. It's the link above. The introductory blurb says : <blockquote>On the basis of a prospectively followed cohort of adult patients with primary soft tissue sarcoma (STS) who were treated at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, a nomogram for predicting sarcoma-specific mortality at 12 years was developed (Ref. 21). Nomogram predictor variables included age at diagnosis, tumor size (< or = 5, 5 to 10, or > 10 cm), histologic grade (high or low), histologic subtype (fibrosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, liposarcoma, malignant fibrous histiocytoma, malignant peripheral nerve tumor, synovial, or other), depth (superficial or deep), and site (upper extremity, lower extremity, visceral, thoracic or trunk, retrointraabdominal, or head or neck. The accuracy of the nomogram has been validated by both internal and external standards (Ref. 14). The tool is meant to be used in adult patients who are less than 6 months from their index surgical procedure and are without evidence of metastatic disease. The sarcoma nomogram may be useful for patient counseling, follow-up scheduling, and clinical trial eligibility determination. </blockquote> The flash which runs after clicking the box in the right corner has the following criteria: <ul> <li>grade: high <li>size category ; > 10 cm <li>Depth: deep <li>Site: retro-intraabdominal ( not sure if should check that or thoracic/trunk) <li>histology: MFH (malignant fibrous histiocytoma) <li>age: 37 </ul> The results again are: 4 year: 52% 8 year: 39% 12 year: 34%I think these are survival rates before surgery; thinking that they can take it out, even do surgery on it (KonKuk said they could not, but cases on the internet and MSKC (memorial-sloan-kettering cancer center) have a surgeon who does these types of surgery, so ... I don't know). Sounds like this is before surgery, so sounds like it's survival rates for those who do and those who do not do surgery.
 
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