1971 年 20 巻 3 号 p. 332-334
From 1963 to 1969, intra-arterial infusion of chemotherapeutic agents combined with radical surgery against sixty-four malignant tumors of extremities had beed carried out at the Orthopedic Dept. of Kyushu University.
The chemotherapeutic agents used in the infusion were Endoxan, M. M. C., Methotrexate, 5-F-U, Chromomycin A3 and Chromomycin S.
In all of them, thirty-one cases of osteosarcoma were evaluated.
The survival rate by life table method as follows; one year survival rate was 67.7 per cent, two years 40.6 per cent, three years 36.1 per cent, four years 36.1, five years 36.1 per cent.
In thirty-seven cases which performed operation alone, survival rate as follows; one year survival rate was 51.4 per cent, two years 33.1 per cent, three years 19.3 per cent, four years 19.3 and five years 12.0 per cent.