Ewing's sarcoma risk factors

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1];Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Suveenkrishna Pothuru, M.B,B.S. [2]

Common risk factors in the development of Ewing’s sarcoma are age, gender, and race.

The common risk factors in development of Ewing’s sarcoma are:

• Age: Ewing’s sarcoma typically occurs in children and adolescents between 10 and 20 years of age (95% between 4 and 25 years of age).
• Gender: males are more commonly affected with Ewing’s sarcoma than females.
• Race: incidence of Ewing’s sarcoma in the United States is nine times greater in whites than in African Americans, with an intermediate incidence in Asians.

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