Relative mortality in soft tissue sarcoma patients: a Danish population-based cohort study

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Table 4 5-year relative mortality according to histological subtypes (N = 1246)

	N	RM, %	95% CI
MFH	300	28.0	21.4-35.2
Liposarcoma	195	18.1	11.3-26.1
Leiomyosarcoma	190	33.4	25.6-41.9
Dermatofibrosarcoma	97	2.1	0.0-9.1
Synovial sarcoma	79	46.4	35.4-58.5
MPNST	78	52.4	40.8-64.5
Fibrosarcoma	53	30.3	18.1-46.0
Rhabdomyosarcoma	35	79.3	64.3-90.9
Angiosarcoma	32	56.8	18.1-75.5
Extraosseous osteosarcoma	25	48.6	27.6-71.4
PNET	25	59.7	41.4-78.5
Epithelioid sarcoma	21	27.9	13.2-52.4
Malignant hemangiopericytoma	20	40.9	21.0-66.3
Extraosseous chondrosarcoma	12	37.5	14.2-71.1
Unclassifiable	48	52.3	36.1-68.8
Others	36	31.5	17.3-50.6

NOTES: Abbreviations: RM relative mortality, CI confidence interval, MFH malignant fibrous histiocytoma, MPNST malignant peripheral nervesheath tumour, PNET primitive neuroectodermal tumour. Classified according to the WHO Classification of tumours of soft tissue and bone 3rd edition, 2002.

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