Signs & symptoms
Signs and symptoms of bone sarcomas
Persistent bone pain — especially at night — swelling near a joint, or a fracture from minor trauma. Key red flags every patient and parent should know.
Patient Awareness
Bone Cancers
Primary bone cancers are rare but treatable. Modern multimodal care combining chemotherapy, surgery and reconstruction has transformed survival and limb-preservation rates. Explore the major subtypes below and watch short explainers on symptoms, tests and risk factors.
Osteosarcoma
Most common primary bone cancer in children and young adults — typically around the knee or shoulder.
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Ewing's Sarcoma
Aggressive small round-cell tumour of bone affecting children and adolescents.
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Chondrosarcoma
Cartilage-forming malignant tumour, more common in middle and older age groups.
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Adamantinoma
Rare low-grade malignant tumour, classically of the tibial diaphysis.
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Other Sarcomas of Bone
Rare entities — chordoma, undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma of bone, leiomyosarcoma of bone and more.
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Patient explainers
Know the basics — short videos
Quick, patient-friendly explainers on the signs, tests and risk factors for primary bone cancers.
Diagnostic tests
Diagnostic tests for bone sarcomas
X-ray, MRI, CT chest, whole-body PET-CT and image-guided core needle biopsy — the sequence that confirms diagnosis and stages the disease.
Treatment
Treatment for bone sarcomas
Multimodal care combining chemotherapy, surgery (limb salvage where possible) and — for selected tumours — radiotherapy, delivered by a specialist team.