[leda]

Difference - bone lesion vs. bone plasmacytoma?

by leda on Thu Oct 31, 2013 6:21 am

What is the difference between a bone lesion and a bone plasmacyrtoma?

[NStewart]

Re: Difference - bone lesion vs. bone plasmacytoma?

by NStewart on Fri Nov 01, 2013 12:48 pm

I'm not positive about this so I hope someone else answers who can either support my definitions or refute them.
Bone lesion - holes in the bone where cancer cells have eaten away the bone matrix.

Bone plasmacytoma - a cancerous growth on the bone filled with cancerous plasma cells.

Plasmacytomas can occur anywhere in the body - bone, soft tissue, nerve tissue, etc. You can develop them in isolation or with a diagnosis of myeloma. Bone lesions can occur with any kind of cancer that metastasizes to the bone.

Plasmacytomas are 2 different things, but you could possibly have both a lesion in one place and a plasmacytoma in another.

Nancy in Phila

[Justine]

Re: Difference - bone lesion vs. bone plasmacytoma?

by Justine on Fri Nov 01, 2013 2:00 pm

Well said Nancey, you know your stuff xx

[Dr. Jason Valent]

Re: Difference - bone lesion vs. bone plasmacytoma?

by Dr. Jason Valent on Sun Nov 03, 2013 4:45 pm

Generally speaking, the bone lesion is a plasmacytoma.