What methods can be used to prevent osteosarcoma

Nowadays, various health diseases surround us, ranging from colds to tumors and even cancer. They are always ringing in our ears. Who has what disease today? Why are there so many complex and diverse diseases? Do we have any preventive measures? Today, let's talk about what methods can be used to prevent osteosarcoma?

First, let's understand osteosarcoma. Osteosarcoma is a malignant connective tissue tumor in which tumor cells can directly produce tumor bone and bone-like tissue. Its incidence ranks first among primary malignant tumors. The tumor is highly malignant and has a very poor prognosis. It can metastasize to the lungs within a few months, and the survival rate after amputation is only 5% to 15% 3 to 5 years.

Here are some ways to prevent osteosarcoma:

1. Prevention among the crowd

The focus of population prevention should be the popularization of relevant knowledge, so that people can increase their awareness and understanding of osteosarcoma and raise their vigilance. The improvement of sanitary conditions and the quality of medical care is the guarantee for early detection, and 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, so as to facilitate early detection and early treatment, improve survival rate, and benefit both the people and themselves.

2. Individual prevention

(1) Primary prevention:

There may be no symptoms at the beginning of the disease, and the earliest symptom is often pain. Once pain occurs, especially without 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, such as X-rays. Therefore, you should avoid contact with these risk factors. If you have to contact them due to certain factors, you should pay attention to protection and have regular checkups until you are over 20 years old.

(2) Secondary prevention:

The prognosis of osteosarcoma patients is closely related to the early or late discovery of the disease. Therefore, when teenagers have unexplained pain around the knee joint, parents must not take it lightly and think that it is caused by the child's mischief. Therefore, 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 and even cure.

(3) Tertiary prevention:

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 still have a good prognosis. Due to the improvement of prosthetic technology, the requirements for the stump after amputation are not as strict as before. Therefore, we mainly retain the length of the affected limb as much as possible while ensuring that the tumor tissue is completely removed and does not violate the principles of tumor surgery.

Therefore, according to the above prevention methods, everyone should pay attention to it and wish you a speedy recovery!