MY FREIND OF 17 HAS CANCER!!!?
Posted on Nov 01, 2009 under cancer news and reports |i just recently found out that my best friend since middle school is diagnosed with bone cancer. He told me he first found out when a small lump appeared on the upper part of his upper arm about 3 month ago. It didn’t hurt at first, but gradually became very painful. He got it checked out and its cancer. He is a boy and is 17. Docotor says its localized and should respond well to chemo. DO you think he will be ok? cuz he is going through treatment right now. What is the statistics on people like him surviving? will he be able to live normally?
November 1st, 2009 at 7:21 am
Your friend has every chance of living a normal healthy life. I have osteosarcoma (a bone cancer) and know of another kind called Ewing’s sarcoma. Treatment is hard, but if it makes him better it’s worth it. It’s good news that your friend’s cancer is localized.
You and your friend a welcome to email me if I can help at all. I’m 19 and was diagnosed at 14.
November 1st, 2009 at 7:21 am
You do not provide enough information. What type of bone cancer . . there are different kinds . . I assume that he has either Ewings sarcoma or Osteosarcoma? It is good that the disease is localized and early stage . . and hopefully he is being seen by a pediatric oncologist who specializes in sarcoma. Sarcoma is generally an aggressive cancer and unpredictable . . the earlier the disease is treated the better the outcome.
What is bone cancer
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_1x_what_is_bone_cancer_2.asp
What is a soft tissue sarcoma
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_1x_what_is_sarcoma_38.asp
Your friend has a good chance. There are still unanswered questions for him . . no one knows if the cancer will relapse or if it will spread beyond the arm . . sometimes in these cases if the tumor does not shrink enough or the surgeon cannot get clear margins than amputation might be recommended. It’s really too early in treatment to know what will happen. Hopefully the disease is localized, the surgeon will get clear, clean margins . . and your friend can go back to being a regular teenager again.
November 1st, 2009 at 7:21 am
you should listen to his doctors. they see these situations ALL the time. We are just people at yahoo.
November 1st, 2009 at 7:21 am
I think if its localized he will respond to chemo very well.
But no two patients are exactly alike, and bone cancer treatment and responses to treatment vary greatly.
# The size, the location, and the type of bone cancer
# The bone cancer stage (how far the cancer has spread)
# How long the patient has had symptoms
# How much of the cancer is taken out by surgery and/or killed by chemotherapy
# The patient’s age, blood, and other test results
# The patient’s general health. survival rate for 1995-2001 was 69.4 percent.
* 67.5 percent for Caucasian men
* 72.1 percent for Caucasian women
* 70.0 percent for African-American men
* 68.4 percent for African-American women.
84.5 percent for localized
i really hope this helps you and i hope your friend lives through it without much more pain.
Best wishes, Molly
November 1st, 2009 at 7:21 am
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