Two cases of osteosarcoma occurring as second malignancy of childhood cancer

Anticancer Res. 1999 Nov-Dec;19(6C):5563-5.

Abstract

We report on two patients in whom osteosarcoma occurred as second malignancy of childhood cancer. One patient had a malignant teratoma and the other adrenocortical carcinoma as the primary cancer. The emergence of cancer in cured cases and long-term survival cases of childhood cancer may result in an increase in the number of osteosarcomas seen in adolescence occurring as second malignancy. Anti-cancer drugs in large does were used for the treatment of a malignant teratoma in the former. These anti-cancer drugs may be involved in the occurrence of the second malignancy. In the latter, the patient has the germ-line mutation of p53 tumor suppressor gene, so genetic factors are presumably related to the occurrence of the second malignancy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adrenal Cortex Neoplasms*
  • Adrenocortical Carcinoma*
  • Buttocks
  • Child
  • Female
  • Femur
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary*
  • Osteosarcoma / diagnostic imaging
  • Osteosarcoma / secondary*
  • Radiography
  • Teratoma*
  • Tumor Suppressor Protein p53 / genetics

Substances

  • Tumor Suppressor Protein p53