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Butterfly of LifeŽ supports Bone Cancer with a yellow sapphire. Most of the time when someone is told they have bone cancer, the doctor is talking about a cancer that started somewhere else and then spread to the bone. This is called metastatic cancer and can happen to people with advanced breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lung cancer, as well as many others. When these cancer cells are looked at under a microscope, they look like the cancer cells that they came from. If someone has lung cancer that has spread to the bone, the cells there will look and act like lung cancer cells and they will be treated the same way. Other kinds of cancers that are sometimes called "bone cancers" start in the bone marrow-in the blood-forming cells. The most common of these is multiple myeloma. Certain lymphomas (which more often start in lymph nodes) and all leukemia start in bone marrow.
Visit the Amercian Cancer Society to learn more about Bone Cancer. |
