Bone cancer is a tumor of the bone that demolishes normal bone tissue in which some cases, may spread to other areas of the body. This disease, generally, is life threatening, it causes tissues such as blood vessels, nerves, and bones to be destroyed by the cancer. Those with bone cancer have abnormal cells and when these cells get in the bloodstream, they can move to different parts of the body and spread the cancer. (Bone Cancer, 2016). Benign (noncancerous) bone tumors are more common than malignant (cancerous) tumors. Both benign and malignant bone tumors may grow and compress healthy bone tissue, but benign tumors do not spread nor destroy bone tissue whereas malignant does (Bone Cancer, 2008). Primary bone cancer are malignant tumors
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Radiation therapy uses high doses of radiation to kill cancerous cells and is sometimes used as a substitute for surgery, destroying or shrinking a tumor. Even though radiation therapy can save lives and prevent recurrence of cancer, healthy cells that are exposed to the radiation may develop into a new cancer (Radiation, 2014). Radiation can be internal or external.
Internally, radiation is put inside the body near or in the cancer cells. Externally, the machine outside the body aims radiation at cancer cells. This type of therapy is used against bone cancer especially to treat Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of bone cancer.
Another treatment is known as chemotherapy, chemotherapy uses drugs to kill off cancer cells. Most times, this is given with surgery to kill the spreading cancer cells or to reduce a tumor,
NOT destroying it completely, unfortunately. The drugs are released everywhere into the body to destroy the cancer cells that may have spread and are undetected. Chemotherapy puts a patient at a higher potential of later developing a different, new cancer, but according to the American
Cancer Society, chemotherapeutic bone cancer treatment is greater than the risk. Side effects to chemotherapy include; fatigue, weight loss, bad appetite, and hair …show more content…
This adds up to 1,620 people dying from cancer every day. Despite the numerous deaths from cancer annually, the cancer survival rate is higher than the death rate, and will continue as so as we move forward in technology and science (Cancer Facts & Figures, 2016).
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Conclusion
Lastly, the cancer begins when a cell loses its ability to control growth, which makes he cells reproduce uncontrollably creating tumors. These tumors can be either malignant, which is cancerous, or benign, which in noncancerous. In the case of bone cancer, if a malignant tumor starts in the bone it is called primary bone cancer, most of which is called sarcomas, defined as tumors containing malignant cells. Cancer can be prevented by staying away from many bad chemicals, foods, and other drugs. Other causes are from radiation, although some radiation is used to treat cancer in the form of radiation therapy.
Gene mutations are what causes the uncontrolled growth in the cell, gene mutations even allow the cells to produce more cells with the same cancer genes. Some of these mutations
Radiation therapy uses high doses of radiation to kill cancerous cells and is sometimes used as a substitute for surgery, destroying or shrinking a tumor. Even though radiation therapy can save lives and prevent recurrence of cancer, healthy cells that are exposed to the radiation may develop into a new cancer (Radiation, 2014). Radiation can be internal or external.
Internally, radiation is put inside the body near or in the cancer cells. Externally, the machine outside the body aims radiation at cancer cells. This type of therapy is used against bone cancer especially to treat Ewing’s sarcoma, a type of bone cancer.
Another treatment is known as chemotherapy, chemotherapy uses drugs to kill off cancer cells. Most times, this is given with surgery to kill the spreading cancer cells or to reduce a tumor,
NOT destroying it completely, unfortunately. The drugs are released everywhere into the body to destroy the cancer cells that may have spread and are undetected. Chemotherapy puts a patient at a higher potential of later developing a different, new cancer, but according to the American
Cancer Society, chemotherapeutic bone cancer treatment is greater than the risk. Side effects to chemotherapy include; fatigue, weight loss, bad appetite, and hair …show more content…
This adds up to 1,620 people dying from cancer every day. Despite the numerous deaths from cancer annually, the cancer survival rate is higher than the death rate, and will continue as so as we move forward in technology and science (Cancer Facts & Figures, 2016).
BONE CANCER !8
Conclusion
Lastly, the cancer begins when a cell loses its ability to control growth, which makes he cells reproduce uncontrollably creating tumors. These tumors can be either malignant, which is cancerous, or benign, which in noncancerous. In the case of bone cancer, if a malignant tumor starts in the bone it is called primary bone cancer, most of which is called sarcomas, defined as tumors containing malignant cells. Cancer can be prevented by staying away from many bad chemicals, foods, and other drugs. Other causes are from radiation, although some radiation is used to treat cancer in the form of radiation therapy.
Gene mutations are what causes the uncontrolled growth in the cell, gene mutations even allow the cells to produce more cells with the same cancer genes. Some of these mutations