Informative Speech On Informatic Cancer

Cancer is never what we dream of having. Especially a cancer that is the most prevalent in teens. This cancer is called Osteosarcoma. This is the cancer that can attack every bone in your body. That is terrifying! There are many mortality rates, treatments, stages, and discoveries that I will be informing you on in the paper.

Osteosarcoma happens to be a very rare cancer. It is very sporadic and has no familial patterns. There is only about 1000 new patients each year with this cancer. Surprisingly enough though, this is one of the top five most common cancers in teens. This cancer is most prevalent in teens because that is when our bodies start to change and grow dramatically. That doesn’t mean if you're an adult you don’t have the risk of getting this cancer! This cancer mainly grows near the end of long bones, or where your bone growth stems from. For example

If it is metastatic you have about 15-30% chance of surviving. This means that the cancer has already spread throughout your body.Chemotherapy is usually the main treatment for this grade of cancer. If that doesn’t help surgery and radiation are the next resorts.If it is a localized cancer you have about a 60-80% survival rate.The localized cancers can’t fully be removed with surgery. Like I said earlier the rate also depends on what grade the cancer is. There are three different grades of osteosarcoma. There is high grade, intermediate grade, and low grade. High grade is the cancer that is the fastest growing of the three. The intermediate grade cancer are normally treated like low grade cancer since it falls in the middle of the two severities. The low grade cancer is the cancer that takes the longest to grow. It is also the least common grade out of the three. This grade almost looks like your normal bone under a microscope, but a few of the cells are growing and dividing