Combined treatment of malignant medullar spine tumors

Twenty four patients with malignant medullar spine tumors were reviewed. Sacrum was involved in 67% of cases. Combined methods including chemotherapy and radiation therapy as well as complex methods including distant gamma-therapy, surgical management and chemotherapy were used. After chemotherapy and radiation therapy 58.3% of patients survived for at least 1 year, 41.7% of patients - 3 years and 33.3% - 5 years. In the most of those patients radical operation was impossible to perform, so chemotherapy and radiation therapy to decrease compression of spinal cord and increase of life time should be considered as an adequate method.