| Only cells that make bone are able to cause Bone | | | | Chondrosracoma most commonly affects the |
| Cancer. More than two-thousand individuals are | | | | bones of the pelvis and hips. For the aggressive |
| diagnosed in the U.S. every year with a bone | | | | form is the survival rate about 30%. The rate for |
| tumor. Bone tumors take place most usually in | | | | slow growing tumors is 90%.. |
| youngsters and adolescents and are less common | | | | Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) affects the |
| in older adults. Cancer involving the bone in older | | | | soft tissues including muscle, ligaments, tendons, |
| grownups is most commonly the effect of | | | | and fat. It is the most common soft-tissue |
| metastatic spread from some other tumor. | | | | malignancy in later adult life, usually happening in |
| There are many various types of bone cancer. | | | | people 50-60 years of age. It most commonly |
| The most ordinary bone tumors include | | | | affects the extremities and is about twice as |
| osteosarcoma, Ewing’s sarcoma, | | | | common in males as females. MFH also has a |
| chondrosarcoma, malignant fibrous histiocytoma, | | | | wide range of severity. The overall five-year |
| fibrosarcoma, and chordoma. | | | | survival rate is about 35%-60%. |
| Osteosarcoma is the most ordinary primary | | | | Fibrosarcoma is much more rare than the other |
| malignant bone cancer. It normally hits males | | | | bone tumors. It is most common in people 35-55 |
| between 10 and 25 years old, but can it can’t | | | | years of age. It most commonly strikes the soft |
| affect the most older adults. It often happens in | | | | tissues of the leg behind the knee. It is slightly |
| the long bones of the arms and legs at places of | | | | more common in males than females. |
| quick growth around the knees and shoulders of | | | | Chordoma is a very special tumor with an |
| children. This type of cancer is often very | | | | standard survival of about six years after |
| aggressive with risk of spread to the lungs. The | | | | diagnosis. It takes place in adults over 30 years of |
| survival rate of five year is 65%. | | | | age and is about twice as common in males as |
| Ewing’s sarcoma is the most aggressive bone | | | | females. It most commonly affects either the |
| tumor and affects younger people between 4-15 | | | | lower or upper end of the spinal column. |
| years of age. It is more common in males and is | | | | In addition to bone cancer, there are different |
| very rare in people over 30 years old. It most | | | | types of benign bone tumors. These include |
| commonly occurs in the centre of the long bones | | | | osteoid osteoma, osteoblastoma, |
| of the arms and legs. The three-year survival | | | | osteochondroma, enchondroma, chondromyxoid |
| rate is about 65%, but this rate is much lower if | | | | fibroma, and giant cell tumor (which has the |
| there has been spread to the lungs or other | | | | potential to become cancerous). As with other |
| tissues of the body. | | | | types of benign tumors, these are not cancerous. |
| The second most common bone tumor is | | | | Lymphoma and multiple myeloma are two other |
| Chondrosarcoma and accounts for about 25% of | | | | relatively common types of cancer that develop |
| all malignant bone tumors. These tumors arise | | | | in the bones. Lymphoma, a cancer arising from |
| from the gristle cells and can either be very | | | | the cells of the immune system, usually begins in |
| aggressive or relatively slow-growing. Unlike many | | | | the lymph nodes but can begin in the bone. |
| other bone tumors, chondrosarcoma is most | | | | Multiple myeloma begins in the bones, but it is not |
| common in individuals over 40 years old. It is | | | | usually considered a bone tumor because it is a |
| somewhat more common in male people and can | | | | tumor of the bone marrow cells and not of the |
| potentially spread to the lungs and lymph nodes. | | | | bone cells. |