Bone cancer treatment in India

The Sarcoma and Bone Cancer Programme provides solution to diagnose and treat Bone Cancers such as Soft Tissue Sarcomas, Osteosarcoma, Ewing's Sarcoma and Chondrosarcoma etc. with limb salvage surgery, using customised modular bone &  joint prosthesis and  biological grafts. Specialists in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Prosthetics, also address ‘quality of life’ issues of  patients with effective support at each step of the treatment plan. It is important to know that most of these tumours are harmless. Only a very few turn cancerous. Bone cancer is very rare – only 0.2% of cancers are related to bones. Most of the cancer cases that are related to bone are metastatic cancers, which have come to the bone from other parts of the body. So these don’t originate in the bone. Bone cancer treatment in India depends on several things, including whether it is metastatic or primary, the type of bone cancer, the size of the tumour, and others. It usually includes a mu...

Bone cancer is a malignant (cancerous) tumor of the bone that destroys normal bone tissue. Not all bone tumors are malignant. In fact, benign (noncancerous) bone tumors are more common than malignant ones. Both malignant and benign bone tumors may grow and compress healthy bone tissue, but benign tumors do not spread, do not destroy bone tissue, and are rarely a threat to life. Bone cancer can be distinguished into primary and secondary bone cancer. When cancer spreads within the cells of the bone, it is classified as Primary Bone Cancer.  Examples of primary bone cancer include Osteosarcoma, Ewing Sarcoma, Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma and Chondrosarcoma. In cases where cancer which originated from another part of the body, has spread to the bone, it gets classified as Secondary Bone Cancer Treatment in India . What are the symptoms/effects? The most common symptom of bone tumors is pain. In most cases, the symptoms become gradually more severe with time. Initially, the pain may ...