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The usual sequence of treatment for patients without
metastasis at diagnosis and whose cancers can be completely removed by
surgery is as follows:
- biopsy to establish the diagnosis
- chemotherapy (usually for 10 weeks)*
- surgery
- more chemotherapy (for approximately one year)*
*Certain patients with low-grade, localized,
surgically-removable osteosarcomas may be treated by surgery without
chemotherapy. Clinical trials have shown that patients with low-grade
osteosarcomas may not need preoperative chemotherapy.
Last Medical Review: 01/14/2009
Last Revised: 01/14/2009
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