ALLMedicine™ Bone Tumors Center

May 18th, 2022 - Osteosarcoma is the commonly seen type of primary malignant bone tumors in children and adolescents. Partial patients with osteosarcoma cannot tolerate the side effects of chemotherapy drugs. Hence, it is urgent to find anti-osteosarcoma drugs wit...

May 17th, 2022 - Overview The approach to radiographic diagnosis of bone tumors goes far beyond conventional radiographs in the present era of multiplanar and functional imaging. Radiography is still the most pertinent step in initial diagnosis of bone tumors; how...

May 4th, 2022 - Intraosseous lipoma is a very rare benign lipoma, accounting for less than 0.1% of primary bone tumors. Incidentally found in most cases, it frequently involves the metaphysis of the long bones of the lower extremity or calcaneus but rarely occurs...

May 3rd, 2022 - In recent decades, limb-salvage surgery has replaced amputation as the first choice for the treatment of bone tumors around knee. After tumor resection, there are a variety of reconstruction methods for us to choose, including autograft or allogra...

May 3rd, 2022 - Atypical spindle cell/pleomorphic lipomatous tumor (ASPLT) is a newly described adipocytic tumor type, recently included as a separate tumor entity in the fifth edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of soft tissue and bone ...

May 7th, 2020 - Although primary bone tumors are relatively uncommon, appropriate imaging evaluation is essential when they are suspected or incidentally detected. In almost all cases, radiographs are the most appropriate initial imaging study for screening and c...

Mar 29th, 2022 - Patients are usually considered for directed therapy (radiotherapy and/or surgery and/or thermo-ablation) in case of symptomatic lesions or at high risk of local complications. They also usually receive systemic bone-directed agents (bisphosphonat...

Mar 21st, 2022 - Most of the current strategies for bone grafting exhibit relatively unsatisfactory results and most of them are associated with drawbacks and limitations to their use and availability, and even controversial reports about their efficacy and cost-e...

Feb 24th, 2022 - Malignant bone tumors are associated with high mortality and disability rates. Developments over the past 20 years have made tumor resection and prosthetic replacement the preferred surgical treatments. Prosthetic reconstruction maintains the cont...

Dec 6th, 2021 - Cohort A: Soft tissue sarcomas (2nd or further line): A proportion of 10% of ORR will be considered as not promising, whereas an ORR of 35% will be considered promising in this population. With a type I error α of 0.05 and a power of 0.90, 27 pati...

Dec 2nd, 2021 - ICG fluorescence imaging has been used to assess tissue perfusion in vivo in real-time intra-operative arterial and lymphatic perfusion imaging and osseous flap perfusion imaging. Compared to the conventional medical imaging modalities, such as co...

Oct 6th, 2021 - The advent of 3D printing has led to an exciting revolution in limb salvage surgery for patients with bone tumors and soft tissue sarcomas, and have resulted in more precise resection and high-fidelity reconstruction, according to R. Lor Randall, ...

Oct 6th, 2021 - Jonathan C. Trent, MD, PhD Soft tissue sarcoma treatments have significantly advanced within the past year with new available agents, others in the pipeline, and the continued search for biomarkers to make treatment more personalized for patients...

Mar 19th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for the palliative treatment of patients whose cancer has spread to the bone provides rapid and sustained pain relief and improves quality of life, according to new research. Radiation trea...

Dec 5th, 2020 - Christopher Parker, MD (right), speaking with a patient. An updated analysis of the results of a phase III clinical trial showed that radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo) significantly improved overall survival (OS) and delayed time to the first skelet...

Dec 5th, 2020 - Diana Wortham Maultsby, RN Nurses involved in cancer care should be up to date on the growing number of applications for interventional radiology in oncology, since some centers may call upon them to work within the quickly developing area, a sp...