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  2. Bone tumor - Wikipedia

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    A bone tumor might present with a pathologic fracture. [1] Other symptoms may include fatigue, fever, weight loss, anemia and nausea. [2] [3] Sometimes there are no symptoms and the tumour is found when investigating another problem. [2] [3] Diagnosis is generally by X-ray and other radiological tests such as CT scan, MRI, PET scan and bone ...

  3. Osteosarcoma - Wikipedia

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    As with human osteosarcoma, bone biopsy is the definitive method to reach a final diagnosis. Osteosarcoma should be differentiated from other bone tumours and a range of other lesions, such as osteomyelitis. Differential diagnosis of the osteosarcoma of the skull in particular includes, among others, chondrosarcoma and the multilobular tumour ...

  4. Bone sarcoma - Wikipedia

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    A bone sarcoma is a primary malignant bone tumour, a type of sarcoma that starts in the bones. [1] This is in contrast to most bone cancers that are secondary having developed as a metastasis from another cancer. Bone sarcomas are rare, and mostly affect the legs. The other type of sarcoma is a soft-tissue sarcoma.

  5. Multiple myeloma - Wikipedia

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    If there are no symptoms, but a paraprotein typical of myeloma and diagnostic bone marrow is present without end-organ damage, treatment is usually deferred or restricted to clinical trials. [105] Treatment for multiple myeloma is focused on decreasing the clonal plasma cell population and consequently decrease the symptoms of disease.

  6. US FDA approves GSK's bone marrow cancer therapy - AOL

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    British drugmaker GSK Plc said on Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved its oral therapy to treat anemia in patients with a type of bone marrow cancer called myelofibrosis. The ...

  7. Biopsy - Wikipedia

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    A bone biopsy is a procedure in which bone samples are removed to find out if cancer or infection or other abnormal cells are present. A bone biopsy involves the outer layers of bone, unlike a bone marrow biopsy, which involves the innermost part of the bone. Bone biopsy should as rule be done after all necessary imagings performed.

  8. Bone metastasis - Wikipedia

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    Bone metastasis, or osseous metastatic disease, is a category of cancer metastases that result from primary tumor invasions into bones. Bone-originating primary tumors such as osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, and Ewing sarcoma are rare; the most common bone tumor is a metastasis. [1] Bone metastases can be classified as osteolytic, osteoblastic ...

  9. Hannah Storm's breast cancer diagnosis was a shock. Now ... - AOL

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    Storm was diagnosed with non-invasive ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a breast cancer in which cells that line the milk ducts of the breast become cancerous. Even though she had no symptoms or ...