Bone Tumors

Question 1

What is primary bone cancer?

Answer 1

A relatively rare malignant tumor that originates in a bone.

Question 2

What does malignant mean? example?

Answer 2

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)

Question 3

What is secondary bone cancer?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is myeloma?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Myeloma can cause ________ and is often ________.

Answer 5

Pathological fractures, fatal.

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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