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osteosarcoma

osteosarcoma. By: Brandon Johnson. symptoms. Pain in the bones Swelling in the body Bone fractures start to occur Your mobility is decrease weight lose without planning it It gets hard to breathe. prevalence.

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osteosarcoma

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  1. osteosarcoma By: Brandon Johnson

  2. symptoms • Pain in the bones • Swelling in the body • Bone fractures start to occur • Your mobility is decrease • weight lose without planning it • It gets hard to breathe

  3. prevalence • Osteosarcoma is more common and men rather than women. Osteosarcoma is usually found with in the age of 10 years of age to 20 years of age (leading cancer under 15)

  4. Cause and how its transmitted • Osteosarcoma develops in tissues that support and connect parts of the body such as fat, bone, muscle and soft tissue. The growth of normal cells begin to change than a tumor is created . The tumor will than spread all throughout the body.

  5. Treatments • Chemotherapy the treatment of cancer with one or more cytotoxic antineoplastic drugs • Surgery • Limb sparing techniques (limb saving) • Allograft is the transplantation of cells, tissues, or organs, to a recipient from a donor of the same species • Rotation plastya portion of a limb is removed, while the remaining limb below the involved portion is rotated and reattached. • Prostatic implant (a fake part) • Amputation where the problems at (cut off)

  6. Some interesting facts • Osteosarcoma is one of the most popular cancers • Osteosarcoma occurs in growing bones. • Osteosarcoma usually starts at a knee joint

  7. sources • Mayoclinic.org • Nih.gov • Cancercenter.com

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