1990 Volume 39 Issue 1 Pages 323-325
In the follow-up study of 101 patients with metastatic spine tumor, the survival from the time when metastases were identified was analyzed. The median survival was 12 months. The survival was significantly short in patients whose cancers were metastasized from the stomach or liver, whose ages were less than 40 years old and who had liver or lung metastases. On the other hand, the patients whose bone metastases were localized in the limieid site had significantly longer survival.
Although the grade of paralysis, the surgery of the spine and radiographic findings of bone metastases were supposed to influence the survival, there was no stastistical evidence.
