Bone cancer?!
Question: i found out a guy i know has stage four bone cancer. can someone explain this? i don't know much about the 'stages'. and evidently, he only recently found out.
Answers: i found out a guy i know has stage four bone cancer. can someone explain this? i don't know much about the 'stages'. and evidently, he only recently found out.
Our bones are made up of basicly two parts; a hard outer casing and an inner, soft spongelike marrow. Bone cancer can arise anywhere in the bones, and in anybone in thebody but usually in the long bones i.e femur or the vertebre of the spine. It's a multiplication of cells within the bones. The stages you refer to give an indication of how advanced the cancer is or, in otherwords, the extent to the size or spread of the tumour. For instance, stage 1 is a contained tumour, stage 2 is an undifined tumour which may have intergrated into it's surroundings, stage 3 is a tumour which has infiltrated it's surrounding and stage 4 is a tumour that has infiltrated and gone beyond the local barriers of the tissue it's growing in, stage 5 is a tumour that had metastisised to another area. The lower the stage of the tumour the more likely a complete recovery will be made but please do not dispair and different cases have different outcomes and there is still plenty we can do to help your friend. Hope this clears things up a little.
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Osteosarcoma is a malignant bone tumor that usually develops during the period of rapid growth which occurs in adolescence, as a teenager matures into an adult.
Ewing's sarcoma is a malignant (cancerous) bone tumor that affects children.
Chondrosarcomas are malignant tumors of cartilage.
Overall Stage Grouping is also referred to as Roman Numeral Staging. This system uses numerals I, II, III, and IV (plus the 0) to describe the progression of cancer.
* Stage 0 carcinoma in situ.
* Stage I cancers are localized to one part of the body.
* Stage II cancers are locally advanced, as are Stage III cancers. Whether a cancer is designated as Stage II or Stage III can depend on the specific type of cancer; for example, in Hodgkin's Disease, Stage II indicates affected lymph nodes on only one side of the diaphragm, whereas Stage III indicates affected lymph nodes above and below the diaphragm. The specific criteria for Stages II and III therefore differ according to diagnosis.
* Stage IV cancers have often metastasized, or spread to other organs or throughout the body.