Equivalent Disease-Specific Survival Between Rural and Urban Osteosarcoma Patients: A Retrospective Analysis of the SEER Database
database[Title] 2025-04-26
Summary:
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignancy of bone. Previous studies have demonstrated rural-urban disparities in metastatic disease incidence and overall survival in high-grade osteosarcoma patients. However, there is a paucity of literature investigating disease-specific survival (DSS) disparities between rural and urban patients, which is explored herein using the SEER database. Patients with biopsy-proven cases of osteosarcoma were identified from 2000-2021. Statistical analysis was...