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===Chemotherapy and radiotherapy=== [[Chemotherapy]] and [[Radiation therapy|radiotherapy]] are effective in some tumors (such as [[Ewing's sarcoma]]) but less so in others (such as [[chondrosarcoma]]).<ref>[http://www.mountsinai.org/patient-care/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/bone-cancer Bone tumor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104052418/http://www.mountsinai.org/patient-care/health-library/diseases-and-conditions/bone-cancer |date=2016-11-04 }} at [[Mount Sinai Hospital, New York]]</ref> There is a variety of chemotherapy treatment protocols for bone tumors. The protocol with the best-reported survival in children and adults is an intra-arterial protocol where tumor response is tracked by serial arteriogram. When tumor response has reached >90% necrosis surgical intervention is planned.<ref>[http://www.thedenverclinic.com/images/stories/Published_articles/Ped_OGS.pdf 10 year survival in Pediatric Osteosarcoma]{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>[http://www.thedenverclinic.com/images/stories/Published_articles/Clin_Orthop_adult_OGS.pdf Survival in Adult Osteosarcoma and MFH of Bone]{{Dead link|date=October 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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