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Osteosarcoma

Last reviewed: 21 Jul 2025
Last updated: 06 Mar 2025

Summary

Definition

History and exam

Key diagnostic factors

  • childhood and adolescence
  • worsening pain over weeks to months
  • mass/swelling
  • male sex
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Other diagnostic factors

  • race/ethnicity
  • tall stature
  • high birthweight
  • limp
  • history of trauma
  • limited range of motion
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Risk factors

  • childhood and adolescence
  • Paget disease
  • radiation therapy
  • Rothmund-Thomson syndrome
  • familial retinoblastoma syndrome
  • Li-Fraumeni syndrome
  • race/ethnicity
  • nonfamilial deleterious germline variants
  • male sex
  • tall stature
  • high birthweight
  • chemotherapy exposure
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Diagnostic tests

1st tests to order

  • conventional radiographs
  • bone biopsy
  • magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • computed tomography (CT)
  • CT thorax
  • bone scan
  • whole body fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET/CT
  • complete blood count
  • serum alkaline phosphatase
  • serum lactate dehydrogenase
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Treatment algorithm

ACUTE

low-grade disease at presentation

high-grade nonmetastatic disease at presentation

metastatic disease at presentation

ONGOING

relapsed/refractory disease

Contributors

Authors

David Loeb, MD, PhD

Chief

Division of Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, and Marrow & Blood Cell Transplantation

Children's Hospital at Montefiore

Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Associate Professor, Developmental and Molecular Biology

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bronx

NY

Declarações

DL declares that he has no competing interests.

Agradecimentos

Dr David Loeb would like to gratefully acknowledge Dr Luminita Rezeanu and Dr Michael J. Klein, the previous contributors to this topic.

Declarações

LR and MJK declare that they have no competing interests.

Revisores

Edward Sauter, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery

Ellis Fischel Cancer Center

University of Missouri

Columbia

MO

Declarações

ES declares that he has no competing interests.

Rachael Windsor, BSc, MBBS, MSc, MRCPCH

Locum Consultant Paediatric Oncologist

University College Hospital

London

UK

Declarações

RW declares that she has no competing interests.

Referências

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Principais artigos

WHO Classification of Tumours Editorial Board. Soft tissue and bone tumours: WHO classification of tumours. 5th ed. vol 3. Lyon, France: IARD Press; 2020

National Comprehensive Cancer Network. NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: bone cancer [internet publication].Texto completo

Strauss SJ, Frezza AM, Abecassis N, et al. Bone sarcomas: ESMO-EURACAN-GENTURIS-ERN PaedCan Clinical Practice Guideline for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. Ann Oncol. 2021 Dec;32(12):1520-36.Texto completo  Resumo

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