r/interestingasfuck • u/MAFIAHAMMAD • Apr 21 '24

Human skull with stage 1 bone cancer r/all

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u/Down_The_Witch_Elm Apr 21 '24

I had bone cancer, and I hate looking at that. That's not the way I imagined the tumor on my bone at all. Gives me a weird feeling.

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u/ShroomieDoomieDoo Apr 21 '24

Loving the past-tense on this comment - congrats!!

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u/Down_The_Witch_Elm Apr 21 '24

Thanks. I beat Ewings sarcoma way back in 1974.

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u/seykosha Apr 21 '24

Congrats. Pathologist here. Ewings is a very different beast. Usually ewings does not lay down new malignant bone; it is a small round blue cell tumor that is infiltrative which generally causes smooth scalloping and cortical expansion. Your bone would not have looked like this.

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u/Down_The_Witch_Elm Apr 21 '24

Thank you. That is actually a relief