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EEC Surgery Working Group

The EEC Surgery Working Group is chaired by Dimosthenis Andreou with Michael Parry as deputy chair.

The EEC Surgery Working Group is chaired by Dimosthenis Andreou with Michael Parry as deputy chair.

Membership was drawn from across Europe bringing together a group of surgeons as well as clinical and medical oncologists.

The group met for the first time in July 2021 and have agreed .

A first priority was to create alignment between collection of surgical data for two international trials for ES that are currently in development – iEuroEwing and InterEwing 1.Ìý

The group agreed on four further projects and these are in progress:

Development of surgical guidelines for ESÌý


Surgical guidelines for the INTER-Ewing1 and iEuroEwing trials, identify need for future researchÌý
Leads: Dimo Andreou, Pietro Pellegrino, Olga ZaikovaÌý

Development of a questionnaire regarding SOPs for the surgical treatment of ES in different centers across Europe


Paper describing the current strategies (diagnosis and treatment) in ESÌý
Lead: Jendrik HardesÌý

Optimize the soft tissue margins in bone ESÌý


1. review of data in current literatureÌý
2. propose recommendations for soft tissue resection margins Ìý
3. prospective survey with regard to the radiological pré-chemo/preop aspectsÌý
Lead: Thomas Schubert

Impact of pulmonary metastasectomy in ESÌý


Evaluation of the prognostic impact of pulmonary metastasectomy y (± CTX, RTX) compared to no metastasectomyÌý

Lead: Andreas LeithnerÌý

The surgery working group will liaise with the radiation oncology working group to ensure that the activities of the local therapy groups are complementary.