Many types of cancer can start in the bones. The most common types, osteosarcoma and Ewing tumors, occur most often in children and teens. Here we'll focus on other types of bone tumors.
Chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, stem cell or bone marrow transplant, steroids, or the cancer itself can suppress or weaken the immune system.
Chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, stem cell or bone marrow transplant, steroids, or the cancer itself can suppress or weaken the immune system.
The usual doses of chemotherapy drugs can cause serious side effects in quickly dividing tissues such as the bone marrow (where new blood cells are made).
The signs and symptoms of neuroblastoma vary widely, depending on the size of the tumor, where it is, how far it has spread, and if the tumor cells secrete hormones.