Older patients with osteosarcoma mainly experience pain, limb impairment, lumps and other metastatic symptoms.
Pain: Osteosarcoma mostly occurs in the bone area, and in the process of continuous growth of tumor, it will damage the soft tissue and bone, thus causing pain symptoms.
Limb disorder: when the volume of osteosarcoma reaches a certain size, it will affect the function of limbs and cause limb disorder, such as unsteady walking, difficulty in straightening arms and so on.
Lump: Osteosarcoma is also a kind of tumor, there will be obvious lump in the lesion area, and there will be pain after pressing.
Metastatic symptoms: Osteosarcoma in the late stage often has metastasis to distant organs, the most common one is lung metastasis, and the patients may have symptoms such as coughing, shortness of breath, wheezing and so on.
It is recommended that elderly patients with osteosarcoma should go to regular hospitals regularly, follow the diagnosis and treatment advice of specialists, standardized treatment and regular follow-up.