Sarcoma
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 418697, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/418697
Clinical Study

Primary Malignant Tumours of Bone Following Previous Malignancy

J. T. Patton, S. M. M. Sommerville, and R. J. Grimer

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Oncology Service, Royal Orthopaedioc Hospital, Bristol Road South, Northfield, Birmingham B31 2AP, UK

Received 5 July 2007; Accepted 25 March 2008

Academic Editor: Jay Wunder

Copyright © 2008 J. T. Patton et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Linked References

  1. C. Dong and K. Hemminki, “Second primary neoplasms among 53 159 haematolymphoproliferative malignancy patients in Sweden, 1958–1996: a search for common mechanisms,” British Journal of Cancer, vol. 85, no. 7, pp. 997–1005, 2001. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at PubMed
  2. O. Merimsky, Y. Kollender, J. Issakov, et al., “Multiple primary malignancies in association with soft tissue sarcomas,” Cancer, vol. 91, no. 7, pp. 1363–1371, 2001. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
  3. J. Moppett, A. Oakhill, and A. W. Duncan, “Second malignancies in children: the usual suspects?,” European Journal of Radiology, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 235–248, 2001. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
  4. C. E. Margo, L. E. Harman, and Z. D. Mulla, “Retinoblastoma,” Cancer Control, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 310–316, 1998.
  5. D. C. Rich, C. A. Corpron, M. B. Smith, C. T. Black, K. P. Lally, and R. J. Andrassy, “Second malignant neoplasms in children after treatment of soft tissue sarcoma,” Journal of Pediatric Surgery, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 369–372, 1997. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
  6. J. F. Kuttesch, Jr., L. H. Wexler, R. B. Marcus, et al., “Second malignancies after Ewing's sarcoma: radiation dose-dependency of secondary sarcomas,” Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 2818–2825, 1996.
  7. A. Abudu, D. C. Mangham, G. M. Reynolds, et al., “Overexpression of p53 protein in primary Ewing's sarcoma of bone: relationship to tumour stage, response and prognosis,” British Journal of Cancer, vol. 79, no. 7-8, pp. 1185–1189, 1999. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at PubMed
  8. A. E. Odink, C. J. van Asperen, J. P. Vandenbroucke, A. M. Cleton-Jansen, and P. C. W. Hogendoorn, “An association between cartilaginous tumours and breast cancer in the national pathology registration in The Netherlands points towards a possible genetic trait,” Journal of Pathology, vol. 193, no. 2, pp. 190–192, 2001.
  9. A. J. Swerdlow, J. A. Barber, G. V. Hudson, et al., “Risk of second malignancy after Hodgkin's disease in a collaborative British cohort: the relation to age at treatment,” Journal of Clinical Oncology, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 498–509, 2000.
  10. B. T. Rougraff, J. S. Kneisl, and M. A. Simon, “Skeletal metastases of unknown origin. A prospective study of a diagnostic strategy,” Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery A, vol. 75, no. 9, pp. 1276–1281, 1993.
  11. H. J. Mankin, T. A. Lange, and S. S. Spanier, “The hazards of biopsy in patients with malignant primary bone and soft-tissue tumors,” Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery A, vol. 64, no. 8, pp. 1121–1127, 1982.
  12. G. M. Spence, M. T. Dunning, S. R. Cannon, and T. W. R. Briggs, “The hazard of retrograde nailing in pathological fractures: three cases involving primary musculoskeletal malignancy,” Injury, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 533–538, 2002. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
  13. M. A. Simon and J. S. Biermann, “Biopsy of bone and soft-tissue lesions,” Instructional Course Lectures, vol. 43, pp. 521–526, 1994.