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'''Osteosarcoma''' is the most common type of malignant bone cancer, accounting for 35% of primary bone malignancies. There is a preference for the | Bone cancer is a malignant (cancerous) tumor of the bone that destroys normal bone tissue (1). Not all bone tumors are malignant. In fact, benign (noncancerous) bone tumors are more common than malignant ones. Both malignant and benign bone tumors may grow and compress healthy bone tissue, but benign tumors do not spread, do not destroy bone tissue, and are rarely a threat to life. | ||
Malignant tumors that begin in bone tissue are called primary bone cancer. Cancer that metastasizes (spreads) to the bones from other parts of the body, such as the breast, lung, or prostate, is called metastatic cancer, and is named for the organ or tissue in which it began. Primary bone cancer is far less common than cancer that spreads to the bones. | |||
There are three types of bone cancer: | |||
* Osteosarcoma - develops in growing bones, usually between ages 10 and 25 | |||
* Chondrosarcoma - starts in cartilage, usually after age 50 | |||
* Ewing's sarcoma - begins in nerve tissue in bone marrow of young people, often after treatment of another condition with radiation or chemotherapy | |||
'''Osteosarcoma''' is the most common type of malignant bone cancer, accounting for 35% of primary bone malignancies. There is a preference for the metaphyseal region of tubular long bones. 50% of cases occur around the knee. It is a malignant connective (soft) tissue tumor whose neoplastic cells present osteoblastic differentiation and form tumoral bone. | |||
[[Image:Osteosarcoma case 001.jpg|left|thumb|150px|This is a photograph of the patient prior to surgery. Note the marked swelling of the knee.]] | |||
[[Image:Osteosarcoma case 002.jpg|left|thumb|150px|This is a radiograph showing the tumor in the distal femur.]] | |||
[[Image:Osteosarcoma case 003.jpg|left|thumb|150px|This is another view of the tumor in the distal femur.]] | |||
==Subtypes <small><ref>MD Murphey, MR Robbin, GA McRae, DJ Flemming, HT Temple, and MJ Kransdorf. [http://radiographics.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/5/1205 The many faces of osteosarcoma.] RadioGraphics 1997 17: 1205-1231.</ref></small>== | ==Subtypes <small><ref>MD Murphey, MR Robbin, GA McRae, DJ Flemming, HT Temple, and MJ Kransdorf. [http://radiographics.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/5/1205 The many faces of osteosarcoma.] RadioGraphics 1997 17: 1205-1231.</ref></small>== | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
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Overview
Bone cancer is a malignant (cancerous) tumor of the bone that destroys normal bone tissue (1). Not all bone tumors are malignant. In fact, benign (noncancerous) bone tumors are more common than malignant ones. Both malignant and benign bone tumors may grow and compress healthy bone tissue, but benign tumors do not spread, do not destroy bone tissue, and are rarely a threat to life.
Malignant tumors that begin in bone tissue are called primary bone cancer. Cancer that metastasizes (spreads) to the bones from other parts of the body, such as the breast, lung, or prostate, is called metastatic cancer, and is named for the organ or tissue in which it began. Primary bone cancer is far less common than cancer that spreads to the bones.
There are three types of bone cancer:
- Osteosarcoma - develops in growing bones, usually between ages 10 and 25
- Chondrosarcoma - starts in cartilage, usually after age 50
- Ewing's sarcoma - begins in nerve tissue in bone marrow of young people, often after treatment of another condition with radiation or chemotherapy
Osteosarcoma is the most common type of malignant bone cancer, accounting for 35% of primary bone malignancies. There is a preference for the metaphyseal region of tubular long bones. 50% of cases occur around the knee. It is a malignant connective (soft) tissue tumor whose neoplastic cells present osteoblastic differentiation and form tumoral bone.
Subtypes [1]
- Intramedullary
- High-grade
- Telangiectatic
- Low-grade
- Small cell
- Osteosarcomatosis
- Gnathic
- Surface
- Intracortical
- Parosteal
- Periosteal
- High-grade
- Extraskeletal
References
- ↑ MD Murphey, MR Robbin, GA McRae, DJ Flemming, HT Temple, and MJ Kransdorf. The many faces of osteosarcoma. RadioGraphics 1997 17: 1205-1231.