Research Article
Changes in Soft-Tissue Sarcoma Treatment Patterns over Time: A Population-Based Study in a Country with Universal and Centralized Healthcare
Table 2
Sarcoma treatment regimens by stage of disease, 2006–2015.
| | Stages 1 and 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Unknown stage |
| Total patients | 1188 | 414 | 313 | 2779 | Surgery + radiation therapy (%) | 33.2 | 40.1 | 7.0 | 22.6 | Surgery (%) | 17.2 | 7.0 | 4.5 | 13.1 | Radiation therapy (%) | 17.0 | 15.0 | 21.7 | 9.6 | Surgery + radiation therapy + chemotherapy (%) | 6.3 | 14.5 | 8.6 | 3.7 | Chemotherapy (%) | 2.4 | 5.3 | 16.0 | 6.7 | Surgery + chemotherapy (%) | 1.6 | 1.7 | 6.7 | 3.6 | Chemotherapy + radiation therapy (%) | 4.0 | 7.5 | 17.6 | 4.3 | No reported treatment (%) | 18.3 | 8.9 | 17.9 | 36.3 |
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