There will be a horizontal line when you bend your arm

Normally, horizontal lines will not appear when your arms are bent. If there are horizontal lines, the first thing to do is to check whether you have obesity problems. If not, then it is likely to be caused by rhabdomyosarcoma. In order to avoid further aggravation of the disease, timely treatment is necessary. Below, we will introduce the treatment methods for rhabdomyosarcoma.

1. Surgery

Rhabdomyosarcoma is mainly treated with surgical resection, which includes all the muscles where the tumor is located. For embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma, in addition to resection, chemotherapy and radiotherapy should be combined to relieve symptoms; pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma is not effective for chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Biopsy of the tumor showed good results after complete surgical resection of rhabdomyosarcoma. Only 10% of patients have rhabdomyosarcoma that can be completely removed. Even for patients with complete resection, chemotherapy and radiotherapy are necessary because rhabdomyosarcoma is highly metastatic.

2. Chemotherapy

When rhabdomyosarcoma cannot be completely removed, patients must undergo chemotherapy. Chemotherapy can completely eliminate any remaining tumors. Even if the tumor appears to be completely removed, chemotherapy may still be necessary.

There are many cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs, most of which are administered intravenously. The main drugs used for completely resected embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma are vincristine and dactinomycin; cyclophosphamide is also commonly used for class II and class III tumors.

3. Radiation therapy

For rhabdomyosarcoma, radiotherapy is a very effective means and can be used as an adjuvant treatment for surgical treatment. The radiation dose is selected according to age and location. The radiation field should include the tumor bed and the surrounding 2 to 5 cm of normal tissue. The effective radiation dose should not be less than 40Gy.

4. Magnetic induction therapy

Magnetic induction therapy uses the principle that ferromagnetic materials generate heat under an alternating magnetic field to raise the temperature of tumor tissue to an effective temperature, thereby achieving the purpose of treatment. Magnetic induction therapy has the characteristics of targeting, conformality, self-temperature control, internal heating, repeatability, and large temperature difference between normal tissue and tumor. It is expected to overcome the shortcomings of previous local tumor thermal therapy methods and become a new and effective means of treating tumors.