How to quickly treat osteosarcoma

Many people would like to know how to quickly treat osteosarcoma after they have it. In fact, osteosarcoma can be cured, but there are also many osteosarcoma patients who miss the best time to treat osteosarcoma and end up in the late stage of osteosarcoma, which makes the treatment more troublesome. How can osteosarcoma be cured?

After the diagnosis of osteosarcoma is confirmed, amputation or joint dissection should be performed as soon as possible. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy before and after surgery may improve the efficacy. The effect of chemotherapy or radiotherapy alone is not significant.

The treatment of osteosarcoma is a comprehensive treatment with surgery as the main method, that is, chemotherapy before surgery and chemotherapy after surgery. In a considerable number of cases, the chemotherapy effect is satisfactory. Chemotherapy greatly improves the survival rate by inhibiting the occurrence of lung metastasis, and chemotherapy greatly increases the chance of limb-saving surgery without amputation. For typical osteosarcoma, if the preoperative chemotherapy is effective, extensive large-scale resection can be performed. However, if chemotherapy is ineffective, radical resection or amputation should be performed, and lung metastases can often be treated with resection.

Only with a clear histological diagnosis can the treatment plan be determined. Preoperative biopsy is very important and is part of surgical treatment. It should be performed by experienced doctors, because inappropriate biopsy can lose the opportunity to preserve the limb. Needle aspiration biopsy has the advantages of little contamination and low risk. Its diagnostic positive rate can be as high as more than 80% in experienced hospitals. If needle aspiration biopsy fails, an incisional biopsy should be performed as soon as possible. The incision for incisional biopsy is usually longitudinal and can be removed together with the tumor during surgery.

Preoperative chemotherapy is safe and beneficial for patients who are preparing for limb salvage, and the effect of preoperative chemotherapy can predict the cure rate. The successful implementation of chemotherapy has enabled osteosarcoma patients to not only improve their survival rate, but also retain their limbs and have a certain degree of joint function.