CANCER OSEO
Disease information
CANCER OSEO
The bony
cancer
or
cancer
in the bones, is
a
little
common
disease
that it can affect any age and often makes in the
childhood
and adolescence.
He is one of the more painful types of
cancer
and difficult to control and one begins with the growth of cancerous cells in weaves of the bones that can have their
origin
in the same bone or arrive from other organs of the body, which is known like metástasis.
When the
cancer
initiates in weaves of the bones, it is known him like
primary
cancer
of bones and when the cancerous cells are originated in another organ it knows him like secondary or metastático
cancer
of bones.
Between the types of
cancer
of the bones
primary
, most
common
they are: osteosarcoma and sarcoma of Ewing, that
children
and adolescents mainly affect to.
Osteosarcoma is
a
disease
in which are cancerous cells (you vitiate) in the bone. In
children
it happens more frequently in the bones of the knee and generally if it is not controlled on time I could be scattered towards the lungs or to other bones.
Sarcoma of Ewing, is another type of
cancer
of bone, much more rare, the cancerous cells are totally different from those from osteosarcoma. Sarcoma of Ewing, mainly affects adolescents and the areas most
common
in than it happens are pelvis, the leg (fémur) the
arm
(húmero) and the ribs.
Sarcoma of Ewing is more often scattered to the lungs, to other bones and the osea marrow (the spongy weave within the long bones of the body that produces
red
and white globules of the blood) Also it can be scattered to the lymphatic ganglia that are throughout all the body and which they produce and they store cells of the
system
of defense or to the
central
nervous
system
, to the brain and
spinal
marrow.
The secondary
cancer
of bones, frequently is originated in other parts of the body and they are scattered to the bones. The
cancer
of
breast
, lungs, thyroids,
prostate
,
stomach
, colon and rectum and kidneys, are those that have more probability of propagating towards the bones.
Other types of bone
cancer
are:
parostótico Sarcoma. That it affects the adults and is characterized by its slow
development
.
Condrosarcoma. Se presents / displays in adults and mainly affects to the soft bones or cartilages of the knees, trunk, shoulders or superior part of thighs.
the
Tumors
of giant cells. They as much affect the knees of men as of women.
Adamantinoma. Tipo of
cancer
that affects the long bones, generally the tibias in the legs.
The Cordoma. That it affects the vertebrae of the low part of the back and can get to also affect the bones of the skull and the vision.
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