| Cancer control has taken America by storm. | | | | common form of bone cancer than women. |
| Thanks to better treatment options and | | | | Chondrosarcoma affects the bone cartilage and |
| earlier detection, cancer rates have declined | | | | usually occurs in patients after age twenty. |
| significantly within the last couple of | | | | Risks for developing this type of bone cancer |
| years, according to the American Cancer | | | | continually rise as a person gets older and |
| Society (ACS). | | | | men and women are at equal risk of developing |
| | | | this disease. |
| Preventing any type of cancer can be | | | | |
| accomplished through a healthy diet and | | | | Bone cancer protection is difficult to define |
| healthy habits, but there is the chance none | | | | mainly because there is no scientific method |
| of these will help. Genetics could be the | | | | used to prevent it. There are risk factors |
| case for patients suffering from bone cancer | | | | associated with bone cancer such as having a |
| because doctors are unsure as to what really | | | | previous disease or receiving treatment for a |
| causes this disease. | | | | specific disease, like radiation therapy. |
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| According to the ACS, there will only be a | | | | Age can also play a role in who develops bone |
| little over two thousand cases of bone cancer | | | | cancer. Because it is hard to practice cancer |
| in the United States for 2007. Of that | | | | control when it comes to the human bone |
| number, only a thousand will actually die | | | | structure, everyone is at risk for developing |
| from the disease. Bone cancer can begin in | | | | this disease at some point in their life. |
| the bone, but most often the cancer started | | | | |
| in another organ and spread. | | | | The most common diagnosis for bone cancer is |
| | | | pain. As the tumor grows, the pain worsens |
| In this instance, the cancer cells were | | | | for the individual. Detecting the pain is the |
| malignant and filtered easily to other parts | | | | first part of bone cancer control. The next |
| of the body. In these situations, patients | | | | important step is detecting it. This can be |
| end up receiving the same type of therapy as | | | | done through x-rays, CT scans, MRI scans, |
| was used for the original cancer because the | | | | bone scans or PET scans. |
| cells are the same. | | | | |
| | | | Once the cancer is found and defined, a |
| Bone tumors get their name according to the | | | | patient needs to work on a treatment. |
| region of the bone the cells are infecting. | | | | Normally treatments for bone cancer are |
| Bone tumors can be benign or malignant. If a | | | | chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery. |
| bone tumor is benign, the patient will not | | | | It is important when practicing any kind of |
| see the cells spread to other parts of the | | | | cancer control that you discuss all your |
| body. There are several types of bone tumors, | | | | options with a doctor so you can find the |
| but the two most common forms are | | | | right treatment for your body. |
| osteosarcoma and chondrosarcoma. | | | | |
| | | | Cancer control may be easier when discussing |
| Osteosarcoma is the most common form of bone | | | | breast and prostate cancer, mainly because |
| cancer found in patients between the ages of | | | | the detection methods are better, more people |
| ten and thirty. There is the possibility that | | | | are quitting smoking and treatment methods |
| individuals between the ages of sixty and | | | | are more advanced. Researchers are constantly |
| seventy will develop osteosarcoma, but rarely | | | | working on ways to prevent and treat bone |
| does one see this cancer in someone who is | | | | cancer. As more discoveries are made, |
| between the ages of thirty and sixty. | | | | hopefully the numbers will decline too as |
| | | | they did for other cancers. |
| Males are also more susceptible to this | | | | |