What are the prevention methods for osteosarcoma

Speaking of osteosarcoma, I believe everyone should know something about it. Osteosarcoma is a malignant tumor with many causes. Its patients are more than teenagers, and the pain and torture suffered by patients are unbearable. For this type of malignant disease, like for some young people, it can be prevented in advance. So what are the preventions of osteosarcoma? Let's introduce them together, I hope it can help everyone.

First: prevention among the population.

The focus of population prevention should be on popularizing relevant knowledge, increasing people's awareness and understanding of osteosarcoma, and raising vigilance. Improved sanitary conditions and the quality of medical care are the guarantee for early detection; the popularization of population knowledge is the basis for early detection. Therefore, it should be emphasized that when adolescents find pain around the knee joint without obvious trauma, they should go to a hospital with a certain level for early examination, early detection, early treatment, and improve survival rate.

Second: Individual Prevention

First of all, the disease may have no symptoms at the beginning, and the earliest symptom is often pain. Once pain occurs, especially without an obvious history of trauma, such adolescents should seek medical attention as soon as possible. The occurrence of this disease may be related to some external stimuli, and contact with these risk factors should be avoided. When contact is necessary due to certain factors, attention should be paid to protection, and regular check-ups should be conducted until after the age of 20. Some benign lesions can also turn into osteosarcoma, such as giant cell tumor, osteochondroma, and fibrous dysplasia of bone. Patients with these diseases should be more vigilant and should follow the doctor's advice for regular check-ups. Be alert to possible signs of malignant changes, such as pain that was originally painless, and sudden rapid growth of something that was originally slow-growing.

Secondly, the prognosis of osteosarcoma patients is closely related to the early or late discovery of the disease. Therefore, when teenagers have unexplained pain symptoms around the knee joint, parents must not take it lightly and think that it is caused by the child's mischievous trauma. The early or late discovery of osteosarcoma and its nature are of great significance for the selection of surgical measures and prognosis. In the past, the traditional method of treating osteosarcoma was amputation plus radiotherapy, and the 5-year survival rate of this treatment was about 20%. The rise of chemotherapy has greatly improved the 5-year survival rate. At the same time, we emphasize that the completion of surgery is not the end of treatment. Patients should follow the doctor's advice and insist on regular chemotherapy to have a good prognosis until they are cured.

Thirdly, because osteosarcoma is highly malignant, amputation is the current surgical method. During surgery, attention should be paid to tumor-free operation, and implantation or distant metastasis caused by surgery should be avoided as much as possible. For isolated lesions with local recurrence or distant metastasis, it is currently advocated that preoperative chemotherapy plus surgical resection plus postoperative chemotherapy should still be used, which may have a better prognosis. If it is extensive metastasis to distant sites, chemotherapy, supportive treatment, radiotherapy of key sites, etc. can be used to support and minimize the patient's pain. The prognosis of such patients is extremely poor.