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Bone tumors are space-occupying lesions arising in bone that are usually derived from primitive connective tissue elements.
They constitute a diverse group of neoplasms that are collectively less common than those of almost all other body sites. Malignant primary bone tumors have an approximate incidence one new malignant bone tumor per 100,000 individuals per year. Since the incidence of benign bone tumors is about half that of malignant tumors, the average aggregate incidence of all bone tumors is about one in 67,000 persons per year.
With a few notable exceptions, bone tumors have a predilection for individuals in the second and third decade; there is a second, smaller peak of incidence in the sixth and seventh decade. In most large series of bone tumors, there is a slight male predominance. Each tumor type has a characteristic range age, skeletal distribution, and sometimes sex and racial predilection.
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Klein, M.J. (2014). Bone Tumors. In: Schwab, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27841-9_689-3
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