Bone Tumors Flashcards

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What is primary bone cancer?

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A relatively rare malignant tumor that originates in a bone.

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What does malignant mean? example?

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Becoming progressively worse and life-threatening.
Example: Ewing’s sarcoma is a tumor that occurs in the bones of the upper arm, legs, pelvis, or rib (peak incidence for this development is btwn ages 10 and 20 years)

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What is secondary bone cancer?

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Describes tumors that have metastasized (spread) to bones from other organs such as the breasts and lungs.

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What is myeloma?

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A type of cancer that occurs in blood-making cells found in the red bone marrow (myel means bone marrow. And -Oma means tumor)

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Myeloma can cause ________ and is often ________.

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Pathological fractures, fatal.

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What is an osteochondroma?
This type of tumor is also known as an ______

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A benign bony projection covered with cartilage (oste/o means bone, chondr means cartilage, and -Oma means tumor).
Exostosis (plural, exostoses).

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