Epidemiology, tumor characteristics and survival in patients with angiosarcoma in the United States: a population-based study of 4537 cases

• Published in: Japanese journal of clinical oncology Vol. 49; no. 12; pp. 1092 - 1099
• Main Authors: Zhang, Chao, Xu, Guijun, Liu, Zheng, Xu, Yao, Lin, Feng, Baklaushev, Vladimir P, Chekhonin, Vladimir P, Peltzer, Karl, Mao, Min, Wang, Xin, Wang, Guowen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 27.12.2019
• Subjects: Aged; Female; Hemangiosarcoma - epidemiology; Hemangiosarcoma - mortality; Hemangiosarcoma - pathology; Hemangiosarcoma - surgery; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Multivariate Analysis; Prognosis; Retrospective Studies; SEER Program - statistics & numerical data; Survival Rate; United States - epidemiology; United States; angiosarcoma; epidemiology; prognosis

Limited by sample size, angiosarcoma was rarely studied. We aimed to investigate the characteristics and prognosis of angiosarcoma in the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database. Patients who were diagnosed with primary angiosarcoma from 1973 to 2014 were...