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Primary bone tumours are tumours that start in the bone. In contrast, secondary bone cancer is where the cancer started in another part of the body but has then spread to the bones.
The most common types of primary bone tumour are osteosarcoma and Ewing's sarcoma, both of which are most frequently diagnosed in children and young adults. Other less common types of bone cancer include: Chondrosarcoma (a cancer arising in cartilage
cells, usually found in adults between ages 50-75, though the less common mesenchymal-chondrosarcoma is more frequent in younger patients),
Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of bone (MFH), Chondoma (a rare low grade malignancy occuring mostly between ages 30 -70), and other rare tumours.
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 Bone Tumour Resources
 Bone Cancer FAQ
- Ewing's Sarcoma
- Osteosarcoma
- Chondrosarcoma
- Other Bone Tumours
- Orthopaedics Links
- Links about Secondary Bone Cancer
- Childhood Cancer Resources
- Soft Tissue Sarcoma
Contents
- Questions and Answers About Bone Cancer (CancerNet)
- Bone cancer (CancerHelp UK) Information about the cancer, diagnosis, treatment and living with the disease.
- Bone Cancer - overview (Medicinenet)
- Bone Cancer FAQ Answers to some of the frequently asked questions about bone cancer. It is produced by an international panel of bone cancer specialists. It includes separate Ewing's Sarcoma FAQ and Osteosarcoma FAQ.
- Bone Cancer Research Fund -Indiana University School of Medicine (USA) The Fund supports osteosarcoma and related bone sarcoma research. The site includes an on-line newsletter about research in bone cancer.
- BoneTumor.org (H. DeGroot MD, University of Massachusetts) an educational web site about bone tumors with sections for patients and health professionals. Includes treatment summaries and an online atlas of bone tumours with radiology and pathology images.
- Center for Orthopaedic Oncology and Musculoskeletal Research (Washington Cancer Institute, USA) The Web site includes slides, references, research, publications and links.
- Musculoskeletal Oncology Unit (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
- Musculoskeletal Tumor Society A non-profit organization bringing together orthopaedic surgeons and other physicians to forward musculoskeletal oncology research. MSTS was founded in the early 1980's and has members accross North and South America
- Pediatric Oncology Resource Center: Bone Tumors (USA) This page contains information and links on various aspects of bone cancer. It is part of the Pediatric Oncology Resource Center, a site produced by parents of children with cancer, hosted by Association of Cancer Online Resources.
- Questions and Answers: Bone cancer From the CancerHelp Web site produced by Cancer Research UK.
- Stories and Faces: Bone Cancer (Pediatric Oncology Resource Center) List of home pages of children affected by bone cancer
- Understanding Primary Bone Cancer (BACUP, UK) An on-line booklet
- Usry's home page - photographs and journal of Vutheary's experience with bone cancer (USA) Usry is an artist and has dedicated much of her web site to her friend Vutheary who is aged 18 and has bone cancer. Each page contains a photograph and text journaling aspects of Vutheary's treatment with chemotherapy.
- Yahoo: Bone Cancer 3 links listed at 15/06/99
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- Bone and Joint Pathology Images (WebPath, USA) Pathology Images - including Chondrosarcoma, Ewing's, and Osteosarcoma
- Bone Tumour Menu (Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics)
- Bone Tumours - Lecture notes from Dr. Teresa Darragh (UCSF Department of Anatomic Pathology) see also files lec_72bone .. 74.bone
- Case study: A sixty year old man with coccygeal chordoma (Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh)
- Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research (Journal) sponsord by the Association of Bone and Joint Surgeons and other affiliated societies.
- Current research in Orthopedic Oncology - Commentary (Bone Cancer Research Fund, Indiana University) Bruce T. Rougraff, MD Current Opinion in Orthopedics 1994, 5;VI:67-69
- Dr. McGuire's Published Abstracts including bone / osteosarcoma references.
- Local Control of Pediatric Sarcomas of Bone (Bone Cancer Research Fund, Indiana University) Short paper by Bruce T. Rougraff, M.D., Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Pathology
- Malignant Bone Tumors (USA) Part of a SEER report on cancer incidence and survival among children and adolescents; 1975-1995. PDF format.
- Meta Index of Orthopedics Lists (Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources)
- Online Atlas of Bone Tumours (bonetumor.org, University of Massachusetts) includes pages on both benign and malignant bone tumours with radiology images and pathology slides.
- Osteoclastoma, Giant cell tumour (Radiology Museum, Central Middlesex Hospital, UK) text and radiology images
- Pagets Disease (Radiology Museum, Central Middlesex Hospital, UK) text and radiology images. Pagets disease is a benign condition, but does have the potential for malignant transformation
- Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics This online textbook includes entries for bone cancers.
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- Chordoma (bonetumor.org) a summary with radiology images and pathology slides.
- Eosinophylic Granuloma (bonetumor.org) a summary with radiology images and pathology slides.
- MFH (bonetumor.org) a summary with radiology images and pathology slides.
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