Word: chondrosarcoma
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...Georgetown University Hospital. Admitted to the hospital for a biopsy and other tests on a Friday morning, Teddy was examined, released for the weekend, and sent back to school the following Monday. But by Tuesday the results of the tests had come back from the lab; the youngster had chondrosarcoma, a fast-growing cancer of the cartilage. The recommended treatment: prompt amputation to prevent the disease from spreading...
...death from disease in children, but bone tumors are relatively rare among the young. Of the 3,200 children under 15 who died of cancer in 1969 (the last year for which figures have been tabulated), only 178 had cancer of the bone. Although Teddy's disease, chondrosarcoma, is one of the rarest of childhood bone cancers, it is one of the most controllable. Nearly 70% of its victims are alive ten years after they are treated. That figure compares favorably to the survival rate for osteosarcoma (primary bone cancer), which is only 23% after five years. In both...
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