Can amputations be avoided in Bone Cancer patient?
Amputation has been the treatment offered for any cancer of the limb in past. Now with better drugs available for cancer treatment, advanced investigations and better surgical techniques at affordable cost, limbs of the patient can be saved. The treatment may include removal to tumor and limb saving surgery using special joints called Mega prosthesis. However amputations are still offered to those who could not reach a cancer hospital in time and cancer has already spread beyond certain limits.
