How is chondroblastoma treated?

How is chondroblastoma treated?

After diagnosis, your healthcare provider schedules surgery to remove the tumor. Surgery is the most common treatment for chondroblastoma and is necessary to remove the tumor, stop the pain and prevent future bone damage.

If the bone is damaged, the surgeon will perform bone grafting after removing the tumor. Bone grafting replaces your damaged bone with healthy bone from another part of your body.

In some cases, surgery can’t safely remove the tumor due to its location and size. Your healthcare provider may recommend non-surgical treatment, including a treatment that heats and destroys the tumor with high-frequency electrical current (radiofrequency ablation) or a treatment that destroys the tumor using extreme cold from liquid nitrogen (cryotherapy).