Osteosarcoma Treatment

After confirm diagnosis of osteosarcoma, treatment include amputated and disarticulation, before and after surgery with chemotherapy and radiotherapy may improve the efficacy of chemotherapy or radiotherapy alone is largely ineffective.

Osteosarcoma treatment mainly is surgery. Surgery should be radical resection large firms, with particular emphasis on the concept of organ removal, so as to prevent the spread of pipe or a result of lacunar local recurrence.

However, if early diagnosis, careful preoperative classification, careful surgery with preoperative and postoperative chemotherapy, the prognosis of improvement. In recent years, the five-year cure rate has improved markedly.

Treatment of osteosarcoma should radical surgery. Conditional case for retention of local wide excision and limb. In addition, before amputation for biopsy in order to further confirm the clinical and X-ray diagnosis. In order to prevent it from spreading to the operation of electricity knife. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy are important adjuvant therapy. Radiation therapy should be divided into several stages:

1) biopsy before 1000 ~ 2000GY of 5 ~ 6 days for the last day of biopsy. Before and after amputation subsequent to the 6000 ~ 8000r.

2) chemical treatment, including selection of high-dose methotrexate (MTX), citrovorum factor rescue, doxorubicin, bleomycin, dactinomycin application as a compound.

Immunotherapy for osteosarcoma is lymphocyte infusion or use interferon and transfer factor.