Question

"A mother is angry about her son’s diagnosis of osteosarcoma. She is telling him that if he had not played football last year and broken his leg, this would not have happened. What is the nurse’s best response to the mother’s statement?"

Answer 1

Answer:

Playing sports does not cause osteosarcoma

Explanation:

Osteosarcoma is a bone cancer that begins in the cells that forms bones.

Common symptoms of Osteosarcoma are; tumor that can be felt through the skin, bone pain, restriction in movement, limping and so on.

If the disease has not spread to other part of the body, the survival rate is around seventy -to seventy-five percent but if osteosarcoma has spread to other part of the body the survival rate is about thirty percent.

For treatment, chemotherapy and chemotherapy drug should be administered.