On December 22nd of 2023, a Vietnamese patient underwent hours-long surgery in order to remove part of his pelvis and femur, as per the usual treatment for bone cancer. What was special here was th… ...

About 5% of childhood cancers are bone cancer. It can cause pain, swelling, fractures, and interference with everyday activities. The above information comes from a 2022 paper. Diagnosis involves ...

A young girl’s only hope of survival after getting bone cancer was to have her leg amputated — then reattached backward. In August 2017, just before her seventh birthday, Amelia Eldred’s leg ...

The diagnosis arrived only 240 million years later, when a femur turned up in an ancient lake bed in Germany, one side marred by a malignant bone tumor. Cancer seldom appears in the fossil record ...

Cancer-induced bone pain (CIBP) is reported by 30 to 50 percent of all cancer patients and by 75 to 90 percent of late-stage patients. CIBP is driven by a combination of tumor-associated skeletal ...

Finding cancer in ancient bones is a "rather rare phenomenon," said study co-author Dr. Bruce Rothschild, a research associate at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ...