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Osteosarcoma and Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of Bone Treatment (PDQ®) - Localized Osteosarcoma and Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of Bone

Treatment of osteosarcoma may be the following:

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy.
Clinical trials of new methods of giving chemotherapy and new schedules of treatment.
A clinical trial of high-dose radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy.
A clinical trial of chemotherapy with or without biologic therapy.

Treatment of malignant fibrous histiocytoma of bone may be the following:

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by wide local excision of the tumor.

Treatment of osteosarcoma that develops following radiation therapy includes chemotherapy and surgery.

Check for clinical trials from NCI's PDQ Cancer Clinical Trials Registry that are now accepting patients with localized osteosarcoma and localized childhood malignant fibrous histiocytoma of bone.

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Last Updated: December 28, 2007

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