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Osteosarcoma and Chondrosarcoma

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Osteosarcoma is by far the more frequent of the two common bone tumours occurring in childhood, and this chapter deals essentially with this type of tumour. The other type, chondrosarcoma, is dealt with specifically in a brief final section. Although osteosarcoma has been reported in a child of 3 years and can occur at almost any time during adult life, the peak age is between 10 and 20 years. Many of the tumours which occur in later life complicate Paget’s disease, which does not occur in children. The annual incidence has been reported as 1.6–2.8 per million children under 15 years. It occurs more commonly in males (male to female ratio, 1.6:1).

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  1. Department of Paediatric Oncology, Emma Kinderziekenhuis, Div. of Paediatrics Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, rm F8-239, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    P. A. Voûte

  2. Department of Radiation Oncology, Beatson Oncology Centre, Western Infirmary, G11 6NT, Glasgow, UK

    Ann Barrett

  3. Service de Pédiatrie, Institut Gustave Roussy, Rue Camille Desmoulins, F-94805, Villejuif Cedex, France

    Jean Lemerle

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Craft, A.W. (1992). Osteosarcoma and Chondrosarcoma. In: Voûte, P.A., Barrett, A., Lemerle, J. (eds) Cancer in Children. UICC International Union Against Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84722-6_23

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