Osteosarcoma And Osteoplastic Posted: 07-10-07 09:16am
What exactly are these two terms? Are they
a type of cancers ? Can osteoblastic occur
on the bone... I'm really confused I read
something about them on the net, but I
dint get anything... Can someone explain
these expressions in lame terms ? Thank
tou very much
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Re: Osteosarcoma And Osteoplastic Posted: 08-27-07 02:23am
gildawe
wrote:
What exactly are these two
terms? Are they a type of cancers ? Can
osteoblastic occur on the bone... I'm
really confused I read something about
them on the net, but I dint get
anything... Can someone explain these
expressions in lame terms ? Thank tou very
much
Osteosarcoma is most common malignant bone
cancer. It is a malignant connective
(soft) tissue tumor(sarcoma). Osteoplastic
means that tumor cells are producing new
tumor bone, because these cells are
osteoblasts and that kind of cells make
bone.
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