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Q: Osteosarcoma And Osteoplastic

asked by: gildawe on July 10th, 2007

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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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MandMs

replied on August 27th, 2007

Extremely eHealthy

Re: Osteosarcoma And Osteoplastic

gildawe wrote:

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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