Osteosarcoma

Osteosarcoma is a cancerous tumor in a bone. Osteosarcoma is an aggressive malignant neoplasm that arises from primitive transformed cells of mesenchymal origin (and thus a sarcoma) and that exhibits osteoblastic differentiation and produces malignant osteoid. Osteosarcoma can start in any bone. It's most often found in the long bones of the legs, and sometimes the arms. Very rarely, it happens in soft tissue outside the bone. It typically occurs during periods of rapid bone growth.