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Bone Tumour
Orthopedics · Oncology
Severe
Severity
Rare as a primary cancer — primary bone tumours account for less than 1% of all cancers, though bone is a common site for metastasis from other cancers
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Orthopedics
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Primary bone tumours arise from genetic mutations within bone-forming or bone-marrow cells
- 2with risk increased by prior radiation exposure
- 3certain inherited genetic syndromes
- 4and pre-existing bone conditions like Paget's disease. Metastatic bone tumours result from cancer cells spreading through the bloodstream from a primary cancer elsewhere in the body. The exact trigger for most primary bone cancers
- 5particularly in adolescents
- 6remains unclear.
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