Bone CA and Metastatic Diseases Flashcards
What are the phases of therapeutic interventions?
Preventative
Restorative
Supportive
Palliative
What is goal of preventative interventions?
Lessens impact of anticipated disability through education and training.
Conditioning program for a child facing prolonged chemo regime
What is part of restorative interventions?
Aims to restore physical integrity
Mobility training and exercise following surgical excision of osteosarcoma
What do you do in supportive interventions?
interventions to cope with or accommodate a disability
orthotic intervention for chemo induced neuropathy
What is palliative interventions?
provide comfort of assistance when recovery is not expected
pain management or family training to allow discharge to home
What are the primary bone malignancies?
relatively rare: 1/100,000
x35 with secondary bone disease (metastasis)
Osteosarcoma
Ewing’s sarcoma
Chondrosarcoma
Malignant lymphoma of bone, parsteal, osteosarcoma, periosteal osteosarcoma
Who gets osteosarcoma?
60 y.o. as secondary neoplasm often associated with Paget’s disease
Where does osteosarcoma occur?
> 1/2 of cases in the metaphysis of distal femur or proximal tibia
Tendency of metastasis to lungs, other bones, but rarely other sites
What is cause of osteosarcoma?
Unknown etiology
linked to radiation exposure
What is medical management of osteosarcoma?
Follow diagnosis through x-ras, MRI, CT to define extent of disease
Biopsy: tumor with malignant osteoid-producing cells
Pre-operative chemo
Surgical excision of affected bone, 80% excised without amputation
Post-surgical chemo
70% long term survival, even with metastatic disease
Who gets Ewing’s sarcomas?
Usually in >3 and
Where do Ewing’s sarcomas occur?
60% of tumors in LEs or pelvic girdle
Tendency of mets to lungs and other bones
What are signs and symptoms of ewing’s sarcoma?
First presentation of pain, may have low-grade fever and anemia
What is medical management of Ewing’s sarcoma?
Onion skin appearance of cortical bone, mixed lytic appearance
X-rays, CT, MRI, bone scan and staging studies to define extent of disease
Several courses of pre-op multidrug chemo
Surgical resection has replaced XRT
Post-op chemo for approx. a year
50-75% survival of 5 years
Who gets chondrosarcomas?
Usually males more than females
>40
What does chondrosarcomas look like?
central portions of skeleton, especially the pelvis
Majority are low-grade and difficult to distinguish from benign cartilage disease histologically
Characteristic radiographic features
What is medical management for chondrosarcoma?
Managed surgically
Chemotherapy and/or XRT are reserved for progression of disease
Excellent prognosis with low-grade disease