What are the early symptoms of osteosarcoma

Osteosarcoma is a tumor disease that is extremely harmful to children and adolescents. The current cure rate is not very high, so early detection and treatment of patients have great advantages for the cure of the disease. Therefore, understanding some early symptoms of osteosarcoma will help to better detect and treat it in time. Avoid causing too much harm to yourself. Let me introduce to you what the early symptoms of osteosarcoma are like.

1. Pain is an early symptom. Before the tumor appears, the patient will find intermittent pain in the bones, which gradually turns into continuous severe pain, especially at night. If it is a malignant osteosarcoma, the pain will be more severe, making the patient feel miserable. This can be said to be the earliest symptom of osteosarcoma. This is also a critical stage. If the patient has this phenomenon, he should go to a regular hospital for treatment as soon as possible and do not delay the condition.

2. Malignant large tumors cause pain earlier and more intensely, often with a history of local trauma. Tumors near the bone ends and joints are large, with varying hardness, tenderness, high local temperature, dilated veins, and sometimes palpable pulsations, and may be pathological fractures

3. The overall health gradually declines to exhaustion, and most patients have lung metastasis within one year. Experts say: The early symptoms are intermittent numbness and pain in the affected area, which then turns into persistent severe pain accompanied by reflex pain; the tumor grows rapidly, destroying the alveolar process and jawbone, causing loose and displaced teeth, facial deformity, and pathological fractures. On X-rays, it appears as irregular destruction, which expands from the inside to the outside, which is the osteolytic type; the destruction of the bone cortex, replaced by hyperplastic bone, and arranged in a solar radiation pattern is the osteoblastic type.

Understanding the early symptoms of osteosarcoma can help to better detect and treat it in time. Therefore, parents with children and teenagers at home should always pay attention to their children. If they find pain around the knee joint without obvious trauma, they should go to a regular hospital for examination as soon as possible, which is conducive to early detection, early treatment, and improved survival rate.