Osteosarcoma Sentence Examples

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  • The use of methotrexate high-dose regimens recommended for osteosarcoma requires meticulous care due to the potential for additive or synergistic renal toxicity.

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  • These results strongly suggest that Rb gene alteration is pertinent to the tumorigenesis of most osteosarcoma cases and some other bone and soft-tissue tumors.

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  • Children with osteosarcoma (bone cancer) and other solid tumors are candidates for surgery, however.

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  • Osteogenic sarcoma, or osteosarcoma, is the most common form of bone cancer, accounts for 6 percent of all instances of the disease, and for about 5 percent of all cancers that occur in children.

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  • Nine hundred new cases of osteosarcoma are diagnosed in the United States every year.

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  • The next likely location for an osteosarcoma is the bone of the upper arm closest to the shoulder (the proximal humerus).

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  • A bone that has been broken or exposed to high doses of radiation used to treat other cancers is more likely than other bones to develop osteosarcoma.

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  • Cytogenic and molecular genetic studies, which assess the structure and composition of chromosomes and genes, may also be used to diagnose osteosarcoma.

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  • An osteosarcoma may be localized or metastatic.

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  • A localized osteosarcoma has not spread beyond the bone where it arose or beyond nearby muscles, tendons, and other tissues.

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  • A metastatic osteosarcoma has spread to the lungs, to bones not directly connected to the bone in which the tumor originated, or to other tissues or organs.

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  • Because osteosarcoma is so rare, patients should consider undergoing treatment at a major cancer center staffed by specialists familiar with the disease.

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  • When an osteosarcoma develops in the jawbone, the entire lower jaw is removed.

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