1. BONE CANCER
By: Shania Vance and Bre Aisel

2. WHAT IS CANCER?
 Cancer is a disease caused by an uncontrolled division of
abnormal cells in a part of the body.

3. WHAT IS BONE CANCER?
 Bone cancer is a malignant tumor, that destroys bone tissues.
 They don’t look like or act like bone cancer cells even thought
they are inside the bone.
 Sometimes the cancer can affect the outside because some
bones are hollow.

4. DIFFERENT TYPES OF BONE
CANCER
 Osteosarcoma- develops in growing bone tissue.
 Chondrosarcoma-develops in cartilage.
 Ewing Sarcoma- develops in immature nerve tissue in bone
marrow.

5. CAUSE OF BONE CANCER
 Researchers have found that there is not a define cause for
bone cancer but they have found that Osteosarcoma is most
found in people that have had a high dose of external radiation
therapy or people with certain anti- cancer drugs.

6. IS BONE CANCER RARE OR NOT?
 Primary bone cancer is rare.
 In Osteosarcoma this mostly common in the ages of 10 and 19
year old.
 In Chondrosarcoma occurs mainly in older adults (over age
40).
 In ESFT’s occurs mostly in children and teenagers under the
age of 19.

7. SYMPTOMS
 The symptoms are pain, swelling near the bone.
 Not all bone cancers cause pain.

8. BONE CANCER DIAGNOSED
 X-Rays help show the location, size, and shape of a bone
tumor.
 A bone scan, which is a test of a small amount of radioactive
material is injected through a blood vessel and through the
bloodstream.
 An angiogram can help show an x-ray of blood vessels.

9. TREATMENT
 Treatment usually involves with surgery, chemotherapy,
radiation therapy, cryosurgery.
 When you have surgery the surgeon removes the entire tumor.
 Chemotherapy is the use of anticancer drugs to kill cancer
cells.
 Radiation therapy is the use of high energy x-rays to kill cancer
cells.
 Cryosurgery is the use of liquid nitrogen to freeze and kill
cancer cells.

10. DOCTOR
 If you do get surgery I would suggest doctor Francis Joseph
Schlueter.

11. INTERVIEW
Q: How many surgery's have you done?
A: I have done at least 25 in the past year
Q: Would you recommend getting check for this if you have random pain?
A: I would say that if you are really concerned about the pain then get it
checked out.
Q: Is bone cancer hereditary?
A: I would get my family history back ground checked out because yes you
can get it from heritance.

12. CITE SOURCES
 http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-
Types/bone
 http://www.cancercenter.com/landing-pages/bone-cancer
 http://www.google.com/