Can osteosarcoma patients eat mangoes?

Written by Guan Jing Tao
Orthopedics
Updated on June 26, 2025
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Patients with osteosarcoma are advised to follow a light diet and eat more vegetables. Fruits should mainly consist of common ones, including apples and other fruits. Although mango is a tropical food and can be consumed occasionally without major impact, it is still advisable to avoid excessive consumption. It is also appropriate to consume some nutritional health foods, such as multivitamins or high-quality protein powder, which can better enhance one's immunity. Additionally, it is important to maintain a joyful mood. The diet should primarily avoid spicy and irritating foods, as well as bad habits like drinking alcohol, smoking, and staying up late.

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Is there a cure for osteosarcoma?

Osteosarcoma is treatable, but it requires proper medical treatment. Currently, adjuvant chemotherapy significantly improves the five-year survival rate for osteosarcoma. The main treatment approach is still surgery as part of a comprehensive therapy. Specifically, the first step involves adequate preoperative chemotherapy, generally no fewer than six sessions over about eight weeks, or approximately two months. After this, patients often experience reduced pain, weight gain, improved positioning of the tumor, and a decrease in tumor size. Depending on the specific situation, a decision is made on the type of surgery to be performed—whether to amputate, preserve the limb, install a prosthetic, or use artificial bone as a replacement. Postoperative chemotherapy is usually also required to help ensure that the tumor does not recur and to increase the five-year or ten-year survival rate. Therefore, the current five-year survival rate for osteosarcoma has increased from the previous 40%-50% to about 80%. So, as long as one chooses the right hospital and the right treatment plan, and maintains confidence, osteosarcoma is usually treatable.

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Osteosarcoma etiology

Currently, in clinical practice, the pathogenesis of osteosarcoma is not fully understood. However, it may be related to genetics, exposure to radioactive materials, and viral infections. It can also be secondary to other deformative osteitis, fibrous dysplasia, and some benign tumors transforming into malignant bone tumors. Osteosarcoma primarily occurs in the metaphysis of long bones. The tumor spreads along the marrow cavity, extending towards both the metaphysis of the long bones and the diaphysis of the bones. Once the tumor breaks through the bone shaft, it rapidly destroys the cortical bone, spreads under the periosteum, and invades the surrounding soft tissues outside the eardrum, damaging the surrounding muscles and soft tissues.

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Osteosarcoma is a type of cancer.

Osteosarcoma is a relatively common type of malignant bone tumor in clinical practice. It mainly occurs near the ends of the humerus, including the area around the head of the humerus, and at the distal end of the femur, near the femoral condyles, as well as the proximal tibia, close to the tibial plateau. These are its common sites. It predominantly affects teenagers, generally those under 18 years of age. The main symptoms include: firstly, persistent and worsening pain that gradually intensifies and does not alleviate, with the notable characteristic being that the pain is more severe at night than during the day; secondly, the appearance of spindle-shaped tumors around the joints, particularly at the three aforementioned common sites, often accompanied by redness, warmth, pain in the superficial skin, and even prominent superficial veins; thirdly, osteosarcoma is a type of malignant tumor, classified as grade 2B among malignant tumors. Its main feature, apart from local symptoms, is its propensity for metastasis, with the lungs being the most likely site of metastasis.

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osteosarcoma X-ray presentation

The variations in the X-ray appearance of osteosarcoma are quite large, but the basic characteristics are a mix of osteolytic destruction and pure bony changes. In most cases, besides the mixed changes, there is also destruction of the bone cortex and invasion of soft tissues, with visible periosteal reaction. The epiphysis has a certain blocking effect on the tumor, hence it rarely crosses the epiphyseal line. On the X-ray, changes indicative of skip metastasis can be seen, along with typical Codman's triangle or sunburst patterns. Beneath the periosteum, there are fine, needle-like sunburst radiating changes, which are fairly typical radiographic changes of osteosarcoma and are generally used to diagnose the condition.

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Osteosarcoma is divided into three types.

Osteosarcoma, also known as osteogenic sarcoma, is a primary malignant tumor of the bone. It ranks second in incidence among primary bone tumors, following plasma cell myeloma. The traditional classification of osteosarcoma generally divides it into osteosarcoma and parosteal osteosarcoma. However, recent studies have shown significant changes in the subdivision of osteosarcoma, mainly due to differences in clinical radiology and histology, and currently, there is no universally accepted method. Some classification systems categorize osteosarcoma based on the precise location of the tumor in the bone, the degree of differentiation of the tumor, the components within the tumor, the number of lesions, and the condition of the bone itself. Common classifications include general osteosarcoma, capillary hemangioma-like osteosarcoma, small cell osteosarcoma, and traditional parosteal osteosarcoma.