What is the cure rate for sarcomas?
The likelihood of cure is very patient and tumor specific. The population statistics for cure give some indication of risk, dependent upon the tumor stage, but even when disease factors indicate that the risk of progressive disease is high, some patients will survive for long durations of time (several years) with adequate treatment. Your doctors will rely on the stage of your tumor at initial presentation to determine the statistical probability of cure for the individual tumor and therapy selected. In general, the likelihood of surviving for 5 years, after being diagnosed with a sarcoma that has not spread to any sites beyond the original site of growth, is 65% to 80%. When distant disease (metastasis) is present at the time of initial diagnosis, the cure rate is lower.
