title: Bone tumors in Japan.
abstract: The author organized the Japanese Registry of Bone Tumors; 27,665 bone tumors of various types were registered during the period from 1964 to 1980. The results of treatment by adjuvant multidrug chemotherapy for osteosarcoma in Japan were recorded; the five-year cumulative survival rate after treatment by multidrug chemotherapy is almost 70%. Among 82 patients with malignant fibrous histiocytoma, investigated with respect to treatment and prognosis, the five-year cumulative survival rate was 50.3%.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D018219:Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007564:Japan; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012516:Osteosarcoma / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy