Fractures And Bone Cancer
by Zephyr/science Photo Library
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Fractures And Bone Cancer
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Zephyr/science Photo Library
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Photograph - Photograph
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Fractures and bone cancer. Frontal X-ray of the right arm of a 63-year-old patient, showing myeloma (blood cell cancer, white mass, centre) in the mid-section of the humerus (upper arm bone). Two fractures are also seen; at the site of the cancer, and further down the arm below the cancer. Myeloma is a cancer of plasma cells, a type of white blood cell. Collections of abnormal plasma cells accumulate in the bone marrow, where they from a tumour that interferes with the production of normal blood cells.
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September 15th, 2018
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