Where do bone tumors usually grow?

Tumor is a relatively common disease, and bone tumor is not an uncommon tumor. Bone tumors generally grow on bones, and the importance of bones to human health is self-evident. If the tumor is malignant, it may even threaten the patient's life, so it must be treated actively. Below, we will introduce in detail the symptoms and signs, examination methods, and prevention and care of bone tumors.

1. Symptoms and Signs

Benign bone tumors grow slowly, cause mild pain, and are difficult to detect in the early stages. They are discovered when the tumor grows larger or compresses surrounding tissues, the pain worsens, or a pathological fracture occurs. Malignant bone tumors grow infiltratively and develop rapidly. After the bone cortex is destroyed, they can spread to the surrounding soft tissues. The affected area is fusiformly swollen, the tumor has unclear boundaries, a hard texture, local blood vessels dilate, the skin temperature rises, and there may be a pulsation or vascular murmur. Pain occurs in the early stages and progressively worsens. Anemia and cachexia occur in the later stages. Metastatic lesions may occur elsewhere, with the lungs being the most common.

2. Inspection Methods

1. X-ray examination can provide valuable information for clarifying the nature, type, and extent of bone tumors and determining treatment strategies. It is an important examination method for bone tumors.

2. When tumors occurring in the pelvis, spine and other parts of the body cannot be displayed well by ordinary X-rays, new imaging technologies such as CT scans, B-ultrasound, MRI, ECT and so on can help determine the location and extent of the tumor.

3. Isotope bone scanning can show the presence of primary and secondary bone tumors before there are positive changes in ordinary X-rays. For suspected cases, bone scanning with 99 technetium should be performed selectively.

4. Histological examination: The final diagnosis of bone tumors depends on histological examination, and biopsy is usually performed to obtain tissue specimens.

3. Preventive Care

1. Prevention and conditioning in life: Strengthen physical exercise, enhance physical fitness, improve resistance to disease, enhance immune function, and prevent viral infection; reduce and avoid radioactive radiation, especially during the period of bone development in adolescents; avoid trauma, especially to the epiphyses of long bones during adolescent development.

2. Dietary prevention and conditioning: Change bad living habits, eat less or no sauerkraut, salted fish, etc. with high nitrite concentrations, eat less baked, smoked and fried foods with high benzopyrene content, and eat less foods with more aflatoxin, moldy, and fermented foods.

3. Mental adjustment: keep a cheerful personality, a good mood, and do not get angry when encountering things.