What is the age group of patients with bone cancer? Can limb salvage surgery be performed on all these patients?
Patients’ age range is from 17 – 70. Age is one of the factors to be considered, as this is a major surgery and requires some rehabilitation effort on the patient’s part. Besides, aged patients may also have other risk factors such as heart disease, diabetes, prolonged chemotherapy and pre-existing infections. If the patient is not very old, and does not have any major medical complications, limb salvage surgery can be performed. In very young patients who are still growing in height, the operated limb used to remain shorter than the other limb.
