How long is the incubation period of bone cancer

How long is the incubation period of bone cancer? Bone and joint pain, bone lumps and movement disorders are considered to be the three main symptoms of bone tumors, especially bone cancer. However, many bone cancers do not have typical clinical symptoms in the early stages, and the clinical manifestations of bone tumors are not specific in many cases. Let our experts explain in detail how long the incubation period of bone cancer is:

For many infectious diseases, such as bacillary dysentery, it takes about 1-2 days from the time the bacteria enter the human digestive tract through the mouth to the onset of fever and diarrhea. This period of time is called the incubation period. Most cancers may also have a similar incubation period.

The process of normal cells transforming into cancer cells under the action of various carcinogenic factors (such as harmful chemicals) is a gradual evolutionary process, which generally takes a considerable amount of time, an average of 15-20 years, and some may last for decades. In other words, there is a long incubation period between exposure to carcinogenic factors and the occurrence of cancer. This is the so-called incubation period of bone cancer! Some scholars have observed that normal esophageal squamous epithelial cells transform into cancer cells through mild atypical hyperplasia and moderate atypical hyperplasia. Mild and moderate atypical hyperplasia can usually return to normal after the cause is eliminated, while severe atypical hyperplasia is considered to be a precancerous lesion of esophageal cancer, which means that it may become cancerous.

It can be seen that the formation of cancer and other tumors generally has a process, and the product is an abnormal new tissue, also called a neoplasm, which is mainly caused by the abnormal proliferation of normal cells in local tissues due to loss of control. After normal cells are transformed into tumor cells, they have abnormal morphology, metabolism and functional characteristics, and have different degrees of differentiation and maturation disorders and different growth patterns. The theory that most cancers have a latent period seems to explain why tumors are more common in adults over 40 years old. When cancer is still in the latent period or early stage, whether it can be detected early is still a difficult problem in modern medicine. Therefore, the issue of the latent period of bone cancer still needs further scientific research to know!