Contents:
- Medical Video: Bone cancer: Causes, Types, Stages, Symptoms and Treatment
- What are bone lesions?
- Types of causes of bone lesions, based on the type
- Benign bone lesions
- Malignant bone lesions
- What are the symptoms of bone lesions?
- What is the treatment of bone lesions like?
Medical Video: Bone cancer: Causes, Types, Stages, Symptoms and Treatment
Wounds can not only occur on the skin outside the body or soft tissue of your internal organs. Bone can also be injured. In medical terms, ulcers, wounds, or abnormal tissue growth in the bones are called bone lesions. Bone woundscan be dangerous if not addressed immediately. Abnormal tissue growth in the bones can even spread to the surrounding bone area, and contribute to other body parts. Here are all the complete information about bone lesions that you need to know.
What are bone lesions?
Bone lesions are areas of bone that have changed or damaged. Lesions can affect any part of the bone and develop in any part of the bone, from the surface of the leg bone to the bone marrow at the center.
Lesions candestroys and weakens healthy bone tissue around it. This condition causes bonesmore vulnerable to cracking or even broken.
Types of causes of bone lesions, based on the type
Causes of bone lesions include infection, fractures, or tumors. Most causes of bone lesions are harmless, non-life-threatening, and rarely spread to other parts of the body. But if the lesion is caused by the development of abnormal bone cells, the lesion can turn into a malignant tumor preceding bone cancer. This bone lesion needs to be watched out more.
Based on the cause, bone lesions are divided into two categories: benign lesions and malignant lesions. Here are the details:
Benign bone lesions
Lesions are said to be benign if caused by things that are not cancerous and life threatening, also usually do not spread. Even abnormal bone cell development does not always turn into a cancerous tumor. So, this non-cancerous tumor is called a benign tumor.
Some bone diseases that can cause benign lesions, namely:
- Non-ossifying fibroma
- Unicameral bone cyst
- Osteochondroma
- Large tumor
- Enchondroma
- Fibrous dysplasia
- Chondroblastoma
- Aneurysm bone cyst
Malignant bone lesions
Lesions are said to be malignant if they are caused by the development of healthy bone cells that turn into cancer cells. Bone cancer itself is divided into two types: primary and secondary bone cancer.
The four most common forms of primary bone cancer are multiple myloma (attacks the soft tissue in the middle of the bone, which produces blood cells), osteosarcoma (attacks children, especially the thigh bone and spine), Ewing sarcoma, and chondrosarcoma (attacks the beak group middle to old age, especially hip, hip and shoulder bones.
While for secondary bone cancer, usually caused by cancer cells from other body parts that have spread to the bone aka metastasis. Some cancers that can spread to the bone are breast cancer, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, kidney cancer, and prostate cancer.
What are the symptoms of bone lesions?
Sometimes a wound to the bone can cause pain in the affected area. This pain is usually described by pain and uncomfortable activities. You may also experience a fever and night sweats.
In addition to pain, some people who experience abnormal tissue growth in these bones can cause stiffness, swelling, or pain when pressed on the affected area. Pain can just come and go, but maybe the symptoms can be worse at night.
If bone lesions are caused by cancer, the symptoms can also differ depending on the type of cancer that causes it.
What is the treatment of bone lesions like?
If you show symptoms of bone lesions, the doctor will first check with an ordinary X-ray. Fetal bone lesions can generally be treated using drugs. But in children, lesions can disappear on their own as time goes by.
In some cases, surgery may be needed to patch the lesion and reduce the risk of fractures. However, benign lesions in the bones can return at any time, even after you recover. In rare cases, they can spread or become malignant.
If the lesion is malignant, treatment options include surgical removal of lesions, bone grafts, planting of bone replacement metals, and cancer-related therapies such as chemotherapy and radiation. Treatment of bone cancer will be adjusted to the type and severity of the stage.
Sometimes, if cancer cells have spread from bone to nerves and blood vessels, affected parts of the body may need to be amputated.
