on behalf of the Swiss Sarcoma Network

Beyond Event-Free Survival: A Multi-State Analysis of Local Recurrence, Metastasis, and Death in Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Background/Objectives: Event-free survival (EFS) is widely used in soft tissue sarcoma (STS) research but combines clinically distinct outcomes such as local recurrence (LR), distant metastasis (DM), and death into a single endpoint. We aimed to decompose conventional EFS and cha...