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Treatments for Bone Cancer
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Tags: Osteosarcoma, Chondrosarcoma, Ewings Sarcoma, Bone Cancer
These are some treatments for bone cancer.
| | Treatment options depend on the type, size, location, and stage of the cancer, as well as the person’s age and general health. Surgery is often the primary treatment. Although amputation of a limb is sometimes necessary, pre- or post-operative chemotherapy has made limb-sparing surgery possible in many cases. When appropriate, surgeons avoid amputation by removing only the cancerous section of the bone and replacing it with an artificial device called a prosthesis. |
| | Chemotherapy and radiation may also be used alone or in combination. Because of the tendency for Ewing’s sarcoma to metastasize rapidly, multidrug chemotherapy is often used, in addition to radiation therapy or surgery on the primary tumor. |
Lister:
JJones24
Source:
NCI-Bone Cancer
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