How to treat osteosarcoma? See these three treatment methods

For this type of osteosarcoma, it is best to treat it in the early stages. Because this type of osteosarcoma has a high chance of becoming malignant, and even in the early stages it is likely to spread and metastasize. Patients can choose chemotherapy or surgical resection. After the patient recovers from the treatment, tissue repair therapy is also required to ensure that the tumor does not recur.

Osteosarcoma is a type of tumor and is relatively common in clinical practice. This disease not only affects the patient's bone health, but also causes abnormalities in the patient's muscle tissue. Therefore, patients need to choose appropriate treatment methods in a timely manner according to their own conditions to ensure normal body activities. Let us now understand how to treat osteosarcoma.
1. Chemotherapy: If this type of osteosarcoma is a malignant tumor, it will metastasize in the early stages of the disease, not only to the bones, but also to the patient's lungs. At this time, chemotherapy is required before surgical resection, but the degree of chemotherapy should not be too deep. Chemotherapy drugs can be used for treatment. These drugs generally include methotrexate, cisplatin, doxorubicin, and ifosfamide. Only by curbing the tumor cells first can surgical treatment be better performed.
2. Surgical resection: If the patient's osteosarcoma is discovered early, the tumor tissue usually invades the adjacent tissue and affects the surrounding jawbone. If the tumor is located in the maxillary bone, surgical resection is required. However, for some patients with mandibular tumors, a complete mandibular resection on one side is required to completely remove the osteosarcoma tissue. Moreover, if the disease is discovered early, the success rate of the surgery is very high.
3. Repair after treatment: For osteosarcoma, although surgery can be used to remove the lesion tissue, the patient's neck lymph nodes are generally not cleared. It is necessary to repair the removed tissue locally, but it is a delayed repair, not an immediate repair. If the patient wants to repair immediately, the surgery is likely to cause the tumor to recur, so there is not much meaning in the repair.