| Bone cancer that originates in the bone - primary | | | | bone cancer are osteosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, |
| bone cancer - is rare. Fewer than 2,500 Americans | | | | malignant fibrous histiocytoma, and chondrosarcoma. |
| are diagnosed with this type of cancer each year. | | | | Secondary bone cancer is cancer that spreads to the |
| The condition affects more children than adults. Bone | | | | bone from another part of the body (such as the |
| cancer is a malignant (cancerous) tumor of the bone | | | | prostate, breast, or lung). The most common types |
| that destroys normal bone tissue (1). Not all bone | | | | of primary bone tumour are osteosarcoma and |
| tumors are malignant. In fact, benign (noncancerous) | | | | Ewing's sarcoma, both of which are most frequently |
| bone tumors are more common than malignant ones. | | | | diagnosed in children and young adults. |
| Both malignant and benign bone tumors may grow | | | | The first symptom of bone cancer is usually pain or |
| and compress healthy bone tissue, but benign tumors | | | | tenderness near the cancer. Bone pain is caused by |
| do not spread, do not destroy bone tissue, and are | | | | stretching of the periosteum (thick membrane that |
| rarely a threat to life. | | | | covers bone) by the cancer, or by stimulation of |
| Most of the time when someone with cancer is told | | | | nerves within the bone. Bone pain may be hard to |
| they have bone cancer, the doctor is talking about a | | | | differentiate from ordinary low back pain or arthritis. |
| cancer that spread there from somewhere else. This | | | | Usually the pain due to bone metastasis is fairly |
| is called metastatic cancer and can be seen in people | | | | constant, even at night. It can be worse in different |
| with advanced breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung | | | | positions, such as standing up, which may compress |
| cancer as well as many others. When these cancers | | | | the cancer in a weight bearing bone. If pain lasts for |
| in the bone are examined under a microscope they | | | | more than a week or two, doesn't seem to be going |
| resemble the tissue they came from. If someone has | | | | away, and is unlike other pain that may have been |
| lung cancer spread to bone, the cells of the cancer | | | | experienced, it should be evaluated by a physician. |
| look and act like lung cancer cells, not bone cancer | | | | Bone cancer is caused by a problem with the cells |
| cells, even after they have spread from the lungs to | | | | that make bone. More than 2,000 people are |
| the bones. They are treated with the same kind of | | | | diagnosed in the United States each year with a bone |
| treatment (chemotherapy drugs, for example) that is | | | | tumor. Bone tumors occur most commonly in children |
| used for lung cancer. | | | | and adolescents and are less common in older adults. |
| Malignant tumors that begin in bone tissue are called | | | | Cancer involving the bone in older adults is most |
| primary bone cancer. Cancer that metastasizes | | | | commonly the result of metastatic spread from |
| (spreads) to the bones from other parts of the | | | | another tumor. |
| body, such as the breast, lung, or prostate, is called | | | | The most common symptom of bone cancer is pain. |
| metastatic cancer, and is named for the organ or | | | | Other symptoms may vary depending on the location |
| tissue in which it began. Primary bone cancer is far | | | | and size of the cancer. Surgery is often the main |
| less common than cancer that spreads to the bones. | | | | treatment for bone cancer. Other treatments may |
| Bone cancer: Primary bone cancer is cancer that | | | | include amputation, chemotherapy and radiation. |
| forms in cells of the bone. Some types of primary | | | | Read about Home Remedies, Natural Home Remedy . |