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Primary Bone Cancer
As such bone is very common site for metastatic cancer deposits. When bone gets cancer secondary from spread of original cancer site it is called metastatic or secondary bone cancer. But when a cancer originates in the bone it is called Primary bone cancer. It is very rare type of cancer and [...]

There are different varieties of bone cancer (primary) and their classification is based on types of cells involved in the cancer. Most common variety of primary bone cancer is Sarcoma. Sarcoma is cancer of cells which manufactures connective tissue like bone, cartilge, ligaments etc..

Osteosarcoma :most common type of primary bone cancer even though incidence is [...]

What causes primary bone cancer?
As with most of the cancers, the exact cause of primary bone cancers is unknown. Here are some of the possibilities:

Treatment with radiotherapy for other cancer or any other problem.
Some long term diseases like Paget’s disease, Li-Fraumeni syndrome, hereditary multiple exostoses (HME), Ollier’s disease
Some non cancerous tumors of bone like chondromas, [...]

Diagnosis of Primary Bone Cancer
Depending on the clinical signs and symptoms, doctor may send you for below mentioned test to rule out and confirm Primary Bone Cancer.

Blood Test and XRays and Scans are the routine tests used for detecting Primary Bone Cancer.

X-ray. X-Ray can give sometime peculiar characteristic picture of Bone growth and may be [...]

Being the most vulnerable part for pressure effect and being the most middle part of body Low back pain is the most common cause of pain in all age groups with more frequent towards latter part of ages. Also this part is used in all most all the works which involves massive body acitivities and [...]