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Ewing's tumor

Introduction: Ewing's tumor

Description of Ewing's tumor

Ewing's tumor (medical condition): Ewing's sarcoma is a malignant round-cell tumor. It is a rare disease in which cancer cells are found in the bone or in soft tissue. The most common areas in which it occurs are the pelvis, the femur, the humerus, and the ribs.

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Ewing's sarcoma:
  »Introduction: Ewing's sarcoma
  »Symptoms of Ewing's sarcoma
  »Causes of Ewing's sarcoma
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Ewing's tumor: malignant tumor of bones which always arises in medullary tissue, occurring more often in cylindrical bones, with pain, fever, and leukocytosis.
Source: CRISP

Ewing's tumor: Related Topics

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Ewing's tumor: Rare Disease

Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Ewing's tumor is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Ewing's tumor, or a subtype of Ewing's tumor, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Ewing's tumor as a Disease

Ewing's tumor: Another name for Ewing's sarcoma (or close medical condition association).
  »Introduction: Ewing's sarcoma
  »Symptoms of Ewing's sarcoma
  »Causes of Ewing's sarcoma
  »Treatments for Ewing's sarcoma

Ewing's tumor: Related Diseases

Ewing's tumor: Ewing's tumor is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database:

Causes of Ewing's tumor

Some of the causes of Ewing's tumor are included in the list below:

  • Ewing sarcoma is the result of a translocation between chromosomes 11 and 22, which fuses the EWS gene of chromosome 22 to the FLI1 gene of chromosome 11

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Symptoms of Ewing's tumor (Ewing's sarcoma)

Some of the symptoms of Ewing's tumor incude:

See full list of 24 symptoms of Ewing's tumor (Ewing's sarcoma)

Treatments for Ewing's tumor (Ewing's sarcoma)

Treatments for Ewing's tumor (Ewing's sarcoma) include:

  • Chemotherapy
  • Radiation therapy
  • Surgery
  • Limb amputation
  • Treatment often consists of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy generally followed by wide or radical excision, and may also include radiotherapy

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Treatment of Ewing's tumor: For more treatment information about Ewing's tumor, see treatment of Ewing's sarcoma (Ewing's tumor)

Ewing's tumor: Related Disease Topics

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Source - NIH

Broader terms for Ewing's tumor

Source - CRISP

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Source: CRISP

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