What are the early symptoms of osteosarcoma

Early detection of bone tumors has a great impact on the doctor's diagnosis and treatment as well as the patient's prognosis. Therefore, it is very important to be familiar with the common symptoms of bone tumors for early detection and timely medical treatment. So what are the early symptoms of osteosarcoma? Let's take a look together.

Bone or joint pain (including spinal pain), bone masses, and limb dysfunction are considered to be the three main signs of bone tumors, especially malignant bone tumors.

Benign bone tumors generally develop slowly, have no obvious early symptoms, and are not very painful or swollen. Only when they grow to a certain extent near the joints can they cause mild limb or movement restriction or deformity. Therefore, asymptomatic benign bone tumors do not need to be treated.

The above three manifestations of malignant tumors are usually more prominent. The early symptoms of malignant tumors in the bones and joints may be very mild and not taken seriously by people. In order to detect malignant bone tumors at an early stage, special attention should be paid to the following situations and further examinations should be performed:

(1) When adolescents suddenly experience unexplained pain around the knee joint that progressively worsens.

(2) When adolescents present with acute osteomyelitis such as fever, limb pain, swelling, and leukocytosis, they should be alert to the possibility of Ewing sarcoma and osteosarcoma.

(3) Multiple enchondromas, multiple osteochondromas and long tubular single osteochondromas are all prone to malignant transformation into chondrosarcomas. When the above lesions occur, regular check-ups are required to prevent malignant transformation.

(4) When elderly people experience unexplained limb pain, back pain, or lower back pain that tends to progressively worsen, they should be alert to the possibility of metastatic bone tumors.

(5) Whenever there is swelling, localized lumps, pain, and tenderness in the soft tissues of the limbs, fascia, and joints, the possibility of synovial sarcoma should be considered first. Do not mistake it for benign lesions such as arthritis, cysts, and fibroma. In addition, spinal tumors may also cause neurological symptoms such as numbness or even paralysis.

If the above symptoms of osteosarcoma are discovered in the early stages, especially in males aged 15-24, females aged 5-14, or the elderly, you should be alert to the occurrence of bone tumors and go to a large hospital with rich experience in bone tumor treatment in time for systematic examinations to avoid delaying the disease.