Treatment
The most common treatment of osteosarcoma
What is chemotherapy?
Cancer cells that look like osteoblasts
What is osteoblastic osteosarcoma?
Test done to confirm the diagnosis of bone cancer
What is a biopsy?
The name for cancer that has spread to other areas
What is metastatic?
Population where osteosarcoma is most common?
Who are teenagers and young adults?
Type of surgery done if tumour is large or gotten into nerves or blood vessels
What is an amputation?
Cancer cells that look like fibroblasts
What is fibroblastic osteosarcoma?
Why are blood chemistry tests done?
To determine how well organs are functioning
Tumour that is 8 cm or smaller and is low grade
What is stage 1A?
List two possible risk factors for osteosarcoma
What is exposure to ionizing radiation, exposure to radiation, age (10-24), height (tall), gender (boys), growth spurt?
Name 3 common symptoms of chemotherapy
What is fatigue, neutropenia, nausea, vomiting, sore mouth, changes in taste, hair loss, weight loss, and loss of appetite
Tumour made of small round cells
What is small cell osteosarcoma?
Name two things a doctor should ask about in a health history
What are symptoms that suggest bone cancer, inherited disease that increases risk, exposure to ionizing radiation, bone disorders, family history of bone cancer, other types of cancer?
Osteosarcoma that starts on or close to the surface of bone and is not aggressive
What is low grade?
Prognosis of osteosarcoma is better if the cancer is in distal sites or proximal sites?
What are distal sites?
Why is chemotherapy given after surgery?
To kill remaining cancer cells and minimize the chances of cancer coming back
Cancer cells that resemble cartilage forming cells
What is chondroblastic osteosarcoma?
How does a needle biopsy work?
A thin needle goes through the skin and moves toward the tumour. The needle removes small pieces of the tissue of the tumour which is then sent to the lab for analysis.
A tumour that is larger than 8 cm and high grade?
What is stage 2B?
What two things do nurses need to check before administering chemotherapy?
What is confirm doctors order and confirm eight rights of medication administration?
What is used to fill in part of or all of the gap left in the bone after a limb-sparing surgery?
What is a prosthesis or bone graft?
Type of cancer where there are lots of abnormal blood vessels visible in the tumour and osteoblasts
What is telangiectatic osteosarcoma?
What is an MRI?
What is magnetic resonance imaging: uses powerful magnetic forces and radio frequency waves to make images of organs, tissues, bones, and blood vessels?
Tumour in several parts of the same bone and is high grade
What is Stage 3?
Name four symptoms of osteosarcoma
What is bone or joint pain made worse at night or during exercise, bone injury or break for no clear reason, swelling/lump around a bone, difficulty moving or using a limb, fatigue, sweating, fever, weight loss?