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Bone cancers are one of the rarest cancers found in the United States with less than 2,500 cases diagnosed each year. These kinds of cancer originate in and affect the bone. The different bone cancers are named for the location in the bone that they originate from and affect. Osteosarcoma, is a cancer that affects the osteoid or the... more »
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One of the most common symptoms of bone cancer is pain and swelling in the cancer-affected area. Morphine is a medication that is frequently used to combat this pain. Morphine is a powerful narcotic synthesized from poppy plants that has the ability to block the pain receptors of the body. more »
Osteosarcoma is a common type of malignant bone cancer, which accounts for 35 percent of malignancies that involve the bones. Most cases occur near the knee (50 percent) and it most often grows in the metaphyseal region of tubular long bones. The tumor is a malignant connective (soft) tissue that grows similarly to bone itself,... more »
Multiple myeloma, also called myeloma or plasma cell myeloma, is an incurable but treatable form of cancer, and is a blood disease that affects the plasma cells. Plasma cells develop in bone marrow and are an important component of your immune system, since they produce antibodies that help you fight off disease and infection. In the... more »
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Bone cancer is a rare and frightening disease. Because most types of cancer do not originate in the bones, there has been less opportunity to... more »
Bone cancer is one of the rarest forms of cancer, found in less than 0.2 percent of patients. It is often called primary bone cancer because it... more »
Metastatic bone cancer is the spread of cancer from one area of the body to one or more of the bones. This form of cancer is far more prevalent... more »
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A bone tumor refers to a neoplastic growth of tissue in bone. It can be used for both benign and malignant abnormal growths found in bone, but is most commonly used for primary tumors of bone, such as osteosarcoma. It is may be applied to secondary bone tumors, i.e. metastatic tumors found in bone.
Classification
Bone tumors may be classified as "primary tumors" which originate in the bone, and "secondary tumors" which originate elsewhere.
Primary tumors
Primary tumors of bone can be divided into benign tumors and cancers. Common benign bone tumors may be neoplastic, developmental, traumatic, infectious, or inflammatory in etiology. Examples of benign bone tumors include osteoma, osteochondroma, aneurysmal bone cyst, and fibrous dysplasia of bone.
Malignant primary bone tumors include osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, Ewings sarcoma, malignant fibrous histiocytoma, fibrosarcoma, and other sarcoma types. Multiple myeloma is a hematologic cancer which also frequently presents as one or more bone tumors.
The tailbone is a common location for a teratoma, known as a sacrococcygeal teratoma, and related germ cell tumors.
Secondary tumors
Secondary bone tumors include metastatic tumors which have spread from other organs, such as the breast, lung, and prostate. Metastatic tumors more frequently involve the axial skeleton than the appendicular skeleton. Tumors which originate in the soft tissues may also secondarily involve bones through direct invasion.
Symptoms
The most common symptom of bone tumors is pain, but many patients will not experience any symptoms, except for a painless mass. Some bone tumors may weaken the structure of the bone, causing pathologic fractures.
Treatment
Treatment of bone tumors is highly dependent on the read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone+tumor
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