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Osteosarcoma

Osteosarcoma Definition Osteosarcoma is the most common type of cancer that originates in bone. . It may also be called osteogenic sarcoma or primary bone cancer. ...

Osteosarcoma, seasonality, and environmental factors in Wisconsin, 1979-1989.

Proxy exposure measures and readily available data from the Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System were used to contrast 167 osteosarcoma cases with 989 frequency-matched cancer referents reported during 1979-1989. Differences in potential exposure to water-borne radiation and fluoridated drinking ...

Telangiectatic osteosarcoma: A case report.

Byline: S. Phatak, P. Kolwadkar, A. Lawange, D. Rajderkar Introduction This aggressive variant of osteosarcoma [12] is uncommon and is characterized by large blood filled cavities and thin septations within the tumor but scant production of osteoid tissue. Gender, age group and presenting symptoms ...

PET imaging of osteosarcoma*

During the past decade the clinical value of PET imaging has been investigated for many different tumors. As knowledge of the advantages and limitations of this modality increased, PET has gained acceptance in tumor imaging. 18F-FDG PET is now successfully used and approved for procedure ...

Effectiveness of radiotherapy for osteosarcoma that responds to chemotherapy

Editorial Recognizing patterns of treatment failure has been important in developing effective therapies for cancer. In osteosarcoma, chemotherapy has become valuable for reducing the incidence of distant metastases, particularly lung metastases. Despite skepticism of the effectiveness of ...

Protease expression in dedifferentiated parosteal osteosarcoma

* Background-Parosteal osteosarcoma with dedifferentiation provides a useful model to study tumor progression from an indolent locally aggressive neoplasm to highly lethal metastasizing malignancy. Up-regulation of the proteolytic enzymes participating in stromal degradation is known to promote ...

Studies in the area of osteosarcoma therapy reported from Cornell University, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Fresh data on osteosarcoma are presented in the report 'Platelet-derived growth factor receptor as a prognostic marker and a therapeutic target for imatinib mesylate therapy in osteosarcoma.' The purpose of this review was to determine whether imatinib mesylate has a role in the ...

Delineating histologic prognostic factors for feline osteosarcoma

Although uncommon as a distinct clinical entity, osteosarcoma is the most frequently identified primary bone tumor in cats. Metastatic rates in cats are lower than those reported in dogs (80% to 90 and wide surgical excision offers longer survival rates. This retrospective ...

Osteosarcoma: a lethal threat: early detection of this death-dealing cancer can extend the life of a stricken animal. Here's what you should kow.

Thanks to advances in veterinary medicine, many of the cancers to which cats are susceptible are now controllable, sometimes curable, and even potentially preventable. This does not always hold true, however, for osteosarcoma, a highly destructive feline ...

Local recurrence of parosteal osteosarcoma adjacent to a prosthesis after 20 years: A case report

ABSTRACT We describe the treatment of an uncommonly late presentation of a recurrent parosteal osteosarcoma of the distal femur. The osteosarcoma had originally been detected 20 years earlier, and had been treated with wide excision and mega-prosthesis to reconstruct the femur. The tumour recurred ...

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