Prognosis and survival for childhood bone cancer
A prognosis is the doctor’s best estimate of how cancer will affect your child and how it will respond to treatment. Survival is the percentage of children with a disease who are alive at some point in time after their diagnosis. Prognosis and survival depend on many factors.
The doctor will look at certain aspects of the cancer as well as your child’s characteristics (such as their age). These are called prognostic factors. The doctor will also look at predictive factors, which influence how a cancer will respond to a certain treatment and how likely it is that the cancer will come back after treatment.
Prognostic and predictive factors are often discussed together. They both play a part in deciding on a prognosis and a treatment plan just for your child. Only a doctor familiar with your childʼs medical history, the features of the cancer, the treatments chosen and the response to treatment can put all of this information together with survival statistics to arrive at a prognosis and chances of survival.
There are different prognostic and predictive factors for childhood osteosarcoma and childhood Ewing sarcoma. There are also separate survival statistics for each type of cancer.
Prognosis and survival for childhood osteosarcoma
Prognosis and survival for childhood Ewing sarcoma
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