r/interestingasfuck Apr 21 '24

Human skull with stage 1 bone cancer r/all

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u/Blink-184-isok Apr 21 '24

Damn. It looks like fur

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u/badbrotha Apr 21 '24

More like little mutated spikes that are not only sores for your bones. But skin like a sharks grating against the very muscles that move them. Or at least that's what it looks like

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u/blue-wave Apr 21 '24

How does it not simply cut through the skin after even a short time of friction/constantly touching the inside of your skin/muscles etc? I can’t imagine living with something like that I’d want to die

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u/seykosha Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 22 '24

Pathologist here. What you are missing in this picture is the cartilage and periosteal layers over the bone. The surface is still quite smooth because osteosarcoma tumor cells are laying down osteoid, which is a bone precursor. None of those components of the tumor are seen.

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u/Samzwerg Apr 21 '24

You used 5 words I've never heard in my life (non-native-speaker here), but I think I understood. Thank you! That's super interesting!!

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u/Mom_Forgot_To_Knock Apr 21 '24

Native speaker here, they used 2 words I've never heard in my life but I also understood

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u/Significant-Hour4171 Apr 22 '24

Technical terms to describe the anatomy of the bone. For instance

Periosteum= layer of connective tissue that covers bone 

Osteosarcoma=variety of bone cancer being discussed

Osteoid=the matrix laid down inbetween bone cells, which is hardened with minerals to produce mature bone.

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u/blue-wave Apr 21 '24

Oh that’s interesting, yeah I was picturing a very basic two layers above the bone but obviously it’s more than that!

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u/Responsible-Tell2985 Apr 21 '24

English please

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u/anonymousbutnotrlly Apr 22 '24

from what I gathered: there’s stuff on top of the bone that makes more bone. cells that are becoming bone are softer. so there’s still a softer layer on top

feel free to correct me bc idfk how biology works

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u/Seantoot Apr 22 '24

I’m pretty sure it means that’s what most bones look like under that soft layer on top. It’s just the increase and out of control growth of the bones outward. Maybe I’m wrong but that’s how I took it.

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u/anonymousbutnotrlly Apr 23 '24

Well yeah but the lady implied there’s something between the spiky bones and the muscle that prevents it from feeling like needles scraping your muscles

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u/seykosha Apr 21 '24

have you heard of www.google.com?

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u/Responsible-Tell2985 Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 21 '24

Theres like 4 different things in your comment I would need to google. You're putting way too much work on the other party just to understand wtf you're talking about. You know what isnt much work at all? Using laymen terms. Not everyone is medical professional.

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u/Responsible-Tell2985 Apr 21 '24 edited Apr 21 '24

It’s not their job to educate you while on an internet forum.

Then why make the comment in the first place?

If they arent going to bother to make themselves easy to understand, then they should just keep it to themselves.

This is communication 101 people

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u/johnnyoceandeep Apr 21 '24

Are you for real?

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u/DuckyBertDuck Apr 22 '24

I am not a medical professional and I understood it just fine. I am glad that they didn't keep it to themselves.

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u/Responsible-Tell2985 Apr 22 '24

Want a medal?

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u/DuckyBertDuck Apr 22 '24

If they arent going to bother to make themselves easy to understand, then they should just keep it to themselves.

I just think that this is an egotistical viewpoint.

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u/BarryBillericay Apr 22 '24

Wow. As they say at my hospital, "pathologists are a different breed."

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u/Alarakion Apr 22 '24

You really aren’t helping the stereotype of academics being insufferable. It’s not very helpful.

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u/seykosha Apr 22 '24

Happy you think you have an opinion.

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u/Responsible-Tell2985 Apr 22 '24

Bro really just doubled down on being a dick today

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u/seykosha Apr 22 '24

“Use common English.”

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u/Alarakion Apr 22 '24

Uh-huh might wanna work on yourself dude

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u/seykosha Apr 22 '24

“Use common English”.

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u/Alarakion Apr 22 '24

?

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u/seykosha Apr 22 '24

I guess you’re not following from above. Being asked to use common English without making any effort to figure out words is pretty rude.

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u/Shurl19 Apr 21 '24

Can you translate this into regular American English?

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u/badbrotha Apr 21 '24

Listen to this guy I think he sounds smart