| 1. | The benign tumors are called chondroma, the malignant ones chondrosarcoma.
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| 2. | ICD-O codes provide a more precise classification of chondrosarcoma.
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| 3. | Nearly all chondrosarcoma patients appear to be in good health.
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| 4. | Surgery is the main form of treatment for chondrosarcoma.
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| 5. | They can be either benign ( Chondroma ) or malignant ( chondrosarcoma ).
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| 6. | These conditions include chondrosarcoma, osteosarcoma, giant cell tumor and aneurysmal bone cyst.
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| 7. | Tests for osteochondroma can also identify diseases such as secondary peripheral chondrosarcoma and Multiple osteochondromatosis.
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| 8. | There are no blood tests currently available to enable an oncologist to render a diagnosis of chondrosarcoma.
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| 9. | Examples of cancers that can require hemipelvectomies are sarcomas like Ewing's Sarcoma, osteosarcoma or chondrosarcoma.
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| 10. | Silencing of a DNA repair gene by thyroid, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, chondrosarcoma and osteosarcoma cancers.
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