Patients with ‘OSTEOSARCOMA’ usually undergoes amputation, leading to severe disability.

Advances in surgical skill and advent of newer technology like ‘megaprothesis’ ,improves the quality of life and helps a bone-cancer patient lead a normal life.

BGS Global Hospital,Bangalore has succeeded in lengthening the leg of a bone cancer patient who was diagnosed with cancer(osteosarcoma) of the thigh bone.

A special non-invasive expandable prothesis was designed and manufactured so that the still young and growing boy’s growth will not be arrested by the removal of the tumour bone.The growth anticipated from the bone was calculated and prothesis designed accordingly and implanted.Every 3 months the leg was placed in a magnetic coil and it would lengthen by 1mm in 4 minutes.The required length of the bone will be achieved without further surgeries. The magnetic lengthening will be stopped when this is achieved