Bone Cancer Patients Society, the meeting point for Patients,Doctors and Agencies

• The purpose of this site is to help all those affected by a  bone cancer disease and to network the patients, treatment facilities and all agencies involved in this field.

• This site is Database driven. It stores the following information and allows Easy entry, browsing and editing of the same.

  • The case histories of the bone cancer patients.
  • The treatment facilities and the specialist doctors treating this illness
  • Discussion Forums among patients their guardians and the medical professionals

General Information About Bone Cancer:

(This is in layman's terms if any errors pls give feedback, the same will be promply corrected)

Who gets this disease:

This disease though a rare one, mostly affects the teenage children when they are in their fast growth age bracket. In some cases we find that even above 40 years old people may get affected. Bone cancer may also come as metastasis in bones due to other types of cancer like breast cancer.

Causes:

No well established causes exist as of today, the victims fall under unlucky part of the low statistics of this disease.

Diagnosis:

It is first suspected with x ray and confirmed with biopsy. 

Treatment:

As of now the best treatment option is multi drug chemotherapy combined with surgery. usually the surgery is sandwitched between the chemo cycles. On the whole the treatment will take about 9 months

Cure rate:

Now a days with a combination of multi drug chemo therapy and surgery the cure rate has improved. The curing possibility a particular case is best discussed with the concerned doctors.

Authentic Information source:

The doctor's sites and the medical organizations sites given in the links page will give authentic online info.

Where do we get treatment and support ?:

The treatment facilities are listed on this site country and city wide. The support is extended by many voluntary organizations usually with their representatives in the big hospitals treating this disease. you could find some of them lised on this site

How many types of primary bone cancer are there?:

The common bone cancer types are osteo sarcoma, Ewing sarcoma, Chondro sarcoma. There seem to be many more which are rare

Note:If any record like patients,treatment facility etc need editing please re-enter the record ( u may use cut paste from the shown page) the old record will be deleted soon. For any help regd content on this site pleae email admin@boncancer-patients.org

This site is maintained by me: Sathvik Saineni ( with my dads help), India, Age : 11yrs I was affected by osteogenic sarcoma. Here is a photo showing me,mydad and my sister. Please give your feedback to make this site more useful to all of us. you want to know more about me click here. Sathvik's Home Page