Sports activity after soft tissue sarcoma of the lower extremity

AbstractIntroduction: The aim of this case series was to assess sports activity levels in long-term survivors of soft-tissue sarcomas after multimodal treatment including limb salvaging surgical resection and radio-chemotherapy.Methods: Thirty-two patients (17 f/15 m) with a mean age of 29 (range 10–44) years at the time of diagnosis and a mean follow-up time of 9 (range 3–21) years following sarcoma were included. Ten patients had been diagnosed with liposarcoma, seven with synovial sarcoma, four with fibrosarcoma, three with undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcomas and the remaining eight patients with different soft-tissue sarcoma entities. Sarcoma location of twenty-four (75%) patients was in the thigh, eight (25%) in the lower leg. Eleven (34%) tumors were located epifascial, 21 (66%) in deeper tissue layers. Sports activity was measured by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Activity Score.Results: One year before treatment 30 patients (94%) and >3 years post-treatment 29 patients (91%)had...