What is
Bone Cancer ?
Bone Cancer is a rare cancer that forms in the cells of bones.Soft tissue cancers are the tumors arising from the tissue around the bone namely muscles,neurovascular structures,fat,skin,synovium etc.
What is the most common form of bone cancer?
The majority of cancer involving the bones is metastatic disease from other remote cancers.Primary bone cancer is much rarer
How bone cancer is generally caused?
In majority of the bone cancer affected, the cancer has actually spread from elsewhere in the body to the bones.Very rarely is someone effected by true bone cancer i.e. a cancer that begins from cells that make up the bone And so in almost all cases, it becomes important to determine if the cancer in the bone is because of transportation from other place or within the bone cells.
Types of Bone Cancer:
a. Primary bone caner:
b. Secondary bone cancer:
a.Primary Bone cancer:
Here, the cancer begins in the tissue of the bone itself
The common types of primary bone and soft tissue cancers are:1.Multiple myeloma
2.Osteosarcoma
3.Chondrosarcoma
4.Ewing's sarcoma.
b.Secondary bone cancer:
This cancer also referred as bone metastasis or skeletal metastasis. This is a form of cancer of the bone where the cancer has spread to the bone form some other organ. The most common cancers which spread to the bone are from the
1.Breast
2.Prostate
3.Lungs
4.Kidneys
5.Thyroid
Secondary bone cancer
Secondary bone cancer is a far more common than primary bone cancer.
Talk about types of Bone cancer and treatment:
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