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Bone cancer is quite a rare type of cancer. It initiates mostly in the long bones like the arm or legs. It is made up of trillions of cells which grow at different rates but do not metastasize. Bone cancer does not include blood cell cancers like myeloma and leukemia that only metastasizes (disperses to the bones). Hippocrates, a Greek physician used words like carcinos and carcinoma to describe tumors formed due to ulcers. Cancer refers to the word crab which has finger like projection similar to those in the cancer cells. The disease was first identified in 1761 ...
