Bone Cance Overview

 

 

 

 

 

 

BONE CANCER

The malignant tumor of bone is described as bone cancer.

Cancer that begins in the bone is known as primary bone cancer. This cancer is very rare.

The most common primary bone cancer are osteosarcoma, which occurs mainly in bone growth called Ewing's sarcoma.

This occurs primarily in immature tissue in bone marrow (bone marrow) and chondrosarcoma is the second type, which occurs in cartilage. The first type is more common in children.

More often, cancer cells spread to bone metastases in other parts of the body such as breast, lung and prostate. Bone tumors in most tumors are classified as primary and secondary tumors.

Primary tumors

This type of tumor is called primary bone tumors are very rare almost less than 1% of all malignant tumors that arise and also studies showing that they are more common among young men. The four most common types of primary bone tumors are:

Multiple myeloma

Osteoclastoma

Fibrosarcoma

Osteosarcoma

Chondrosarcoma

Ewing's sarcoma

Secondary disease, or metastatic

Secondary or metastatic tumors can be further divided into:

The most common tumors, which account for bone metastases, breast cancer, lung cancer and prostate cancer. Tumors can be either due to the continued spread of the tumor and adjacent soft tissue is also able to represent the malignant transformation of preexisting benign lesions. Secondary tumors or metastases most frequently involve the axial skeleton than the appendicular skeleton.

Secondary Bone Cancer

As mentioned above, the secondary bone cancer is cancer that has spread, or metastasis of a primary cancer in another part of the bones of the body. This type is more common than primary bone cancer, which is a cancer that originates from the same bones.

The most common primary cancers that metastasize to bone are breast, lung and prostate cancer, and the bones that are most affected in this process is the spine, ribs, pelvis, skull and upper arm bone and leg.