ARTICLES Influence of Doxorubicin Dose Intensity on Response and Outcome for Patients With

The goal of this study was to use dose-intensity analyses of published Ewing's sarcoma and osteogenic sarcoma trials to determine which agents were most closely associated with a favorable response. The percentage of patients with more than 90 % tumor necrosis following neoadjuvant chemo-therapy was the end point for analysis of osteogenic sarcoma trials, and disease-free survival and percentage of patients with distant-only relapse were the end points for analysis of Ewing's sarcoma trials. The data were analyzed using logis-tic regression analysis to circumvent the distortion of univariate analysis resulting from the correlation between doxorubicin dose intensity and the dose intensity of other agents. Our analysis suggests that doxorubicin dose intensity is an important determinant of favorable outcome for both Ewing's sarcoma and osteogenic sarcoma and that the dos