How long can you live with bone cancer? These factors determine the survival period

Bone cancer is also a relatively common malignant tumor. When the disease develops to the late stage, the patient will have particularly obvious pain symptoms, which seriously affect the patient's quality of life. In addition, the possibility of curing this disease is very small. Therefore, once suffering from bone cancer, patients and their families are often concerned about how long bone cancer patients can live. So how long can bone cancer patients live?

1. How long can a bone cancer patient live? There is no specific number for how long a bone cancer patient can live. In addition, each person's physique is different, the time of disease discovery is different, the treatment method is different, and the patient's mentality is different, all of which determine the survival period of bone cancer patients. If the disease is discovered in the early stage, amputation is performed early for the patient, and combined with radiotherapy and chemotherapy, a small number of patients may be cured.
However, most bone cancer patients will have lung metastasis, and even with regular chemotherapy, it is difficult for the patient to survive for a long time. If the bone cancer patient has reached the late stage, active treatment may allow him to live for two to three years. If he is not treated or the treatment is not standardized, the survival time will be shorter.

Treatment of bone cancer
1. Surgical resection <br/>If bone cancer is still in the early stages, amputation and joint dislocation are the most commonly used treatments. Currently, for bone cancer patients, total femoral resection is performed, followed by artificial prosthesis replacement, coupled with chemotherapy as an adjuvant treatment, and the treatment effect is still good.
2. Chemotherapy <br/>Both early-stage bone cancer patients undergo surgical resection and late-stage patients need chemotherapy. The most common drugs are doxorubicin and methotrexate. Although chemotherapy has many side effects, this treatment method can effectively kill cancer cells in the body and prolong the patient's survival.

3. Radiotherapy <br/>This is also a common auxiliary treatment method. Generally, radiotherapy can be used after surgery or when the bone cancer patient's condition has progressed to the late stage and surgery is not possible to kill cancer cells in the body and prolong the patient's survival.
4. Immunotherapy <br/>Using interferon for immunotherapy of bone cancer patients also has a certain therapeutic effect, but the source of interferon is limited, so this treatment method cannot be used on a large scale at present.