How to treat osteosarcoma

How to treat osteosarcoma? Treatment requires caution. Many people understand this truth, but when putting it into practice, they always tend to ignore the existence of this sentence, resulting in more serious harm, and some even lose their lives. Osteosarcoma is a disease that is not well known, and it is easier for people to ignore the importance of treatment. Therefore, patients need to be vigilant and need to know how to treat osteosarcoma.

Osteosarcoma is still a malignant tumor with a high mortality rate in children and adolescents, but early detection and timely treatment have greatly improved the survival rate of the disease.

After osteosarcoma is diagnosed by pathology, early chemotherapy or radiotherapy begins. Resection of tumor tissue is an important step in the treatment of osteosarcoma. With the improvement of tumor surgical technology and the development of implant research, limb preservation therapy has shown a good treatment prospect. Consolidation chemotherapy or radiotherapy after tumor tissue resection is very important for controlling tumor metastasis and improving survival rate.

Radical surgery should be performed to treat osteosarcoma. If conditions permit, wide local excision can be performed to preserve the limb. In addition, a biopsy should be performed before amputation.

Immunotherapy consists of intravenous infusion of lymphocytes or interferon and transfer factor, but the efficacy is still uncertain.

The closer the tumor is to the trunk, the higher the mortality rate. It is difficult to judge the relationship between the type of tumor and the degree of vascularity and prognosis. The patient's immune response should also be paid attention to. Some patients with advanced tumors can survive for a long time after amputation, and there is no recurrence after radiotherapy, and lung metastasis can also dissipate. This may be related to the immune response.

The key factors affecting prognosis are early diagnosis, whether the tumor is completely removed, chemotherapy and radiotherapy before and after surgery. In addition, it is also related to the tissue type and size of tumor cells, changes in serum alkaline phosphatase before and after surgery, and whether local lymph nodes are involved.