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• Bone Cancer: Questions and Answers(National Cancer Institute) - http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/bone
  Also available in Spanish http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Sites-Types/bone-spanish
• Detailed Guide: Bone Cancer(American Cancer Society) - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2_3x.asp?dt=2

Overviews

• Bone Cancer(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) - http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/bone-cancer/DS00520/DSECTION=all&METHOD=print
• Bone Tumor(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) - http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00074&return_link=0

Latest News

• Immunotherapy Boosts Treatment of Kids' High-Risk Sarcomas(08/04/2008, HealthDay) - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_67732.html

Diagnosis/Symptoms

• Bone Markers(American Association for Clinical Chemistry) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/bone_markers/glance.html
• Bone Scan: Using Nuclear Medicine to Find Bone Abnormalities(Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) - http://www.mayoclinic.com/print/bone-scan/CA00020/METHOD=print
• Glossary of Orthopaedic Diagnostic Tests(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) - http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00272
  Also available in Spanish http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00492

Treatment

• Bone and Tissue Transplantation(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) - http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00115
• Ewing's Family of Tumors (PDQ): Treatment(National Cancer Institute) - http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/ewings/patient/
  Also available in Spanish http://www.cancer.gov/espanol/pdq/tratamiento/ewing/patient/
• Osteosarcoma/Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of Bone (PDQ): Treatment(National Cancer Institute) - http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/osteosarcoma/Patient
  Also available in Spanish http://www.cancer.gov/espanol/pdq/tratamiento/osteosarcoma
• Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty(American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America) - http://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info.cfm?pg=vertebro&bhcp=1
  Also available in Spanish http://www.radiologyinfo.org/sp/info.cfm?pg=vertebro

Specific Conditions

• Chordoma(American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons) - http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00084
• Detailed Guide: Ewing's Family of Tumors(American Cancer Society) - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2_3x.asp?rnav=cridg&dt=48
• Detailed Guide: Osteosarcoma(American Cancer Society) - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2_3x.asp?rnav=cridg&dt=52
• Myeloma Bone Disease(Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation) - http://www.multiplemyeloma.org/about_myeloma/2.08.asp
• Overview: Bone Metastasis(American Cancer Society) - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2_1x.asp?rnav=criov&dt=66

Anatomy/Physiology

• Atlas of the Body: The Skeleton -- Side View(American Medical Association) - http://www.medem.com/medlb/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZKBBGBGJC&sub_cat=523

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Bone Neoplasms(National Institutes of Health) - http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/open/condition=%22Bone+Neoplasms%22
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Osteosarcoma(National Institutes of Health) - http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/open/condition=%22Osteosarcoma%22
• ClinicalTrials.gov: Sarcoma, Ewing's(National Institutes of Health) - http://clinicaltrials.gov/search/open/condition=%22Sarcoma,+Ewing's%22

Genetics

• Genetics Home Reference: Li-Fraumeni syndrome(National Library of Medicine) - http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=lifraumenisyndrome

Research

• Experimental Drug for Osteosarcoma Improves Overall Survival(National Cancer Institute) - http://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/osteosarcoma0308

Journal Articles

• Article: Bone and soft-tissue lesions: what factors affect diagnostic yield of... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18710986&tool=MedlinePlus
• Article: Immunomagnetic quantification of circulating tumor cells as a prognostic factor... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18707699&tool=MedlinePlus
• Article: Immunohistochemical characterization of nasal-type extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma using a tissue... - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=18701406&tool=MedlinePlus
• Bone Cancer -- see more articles - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=(bone+neoplasms[majr]+NOT+(neoplasms,bone+tissue[mh]+OR+osteosarcoma[majr]))+AND+english[la]+AND+humans[mh]+AND+(review[pt]+OR+guideline[pt]+OR+clinical+trial[pt]+OR+jsubsetk[text]+OR+jsubsetaim[text]+OR+jsubsetn[text]+OR+patient+education+handout[pt])+NOT+(letter[pt]+OR+editorial[pt]+OR+case+reports[pt])&doptcmdl=summary&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=last+1+Year&tool=MedlinePlus
• Osteosarcoma and ewing's sarcoma -- see more articles - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=search&db=pubmed&term=osteosarcoma[majr]+AND+humans[mh]+AND+english[la]+NOT+(letter[pt]+OR+editorial[pt]+OR+case+reports[pt])&doptcmdl=summary&cmd_current=Limits&pmfilter_EDatLimit=last+1+Year&tool=MedlinePlus

Dictionaries/Glossaries

• Dictionary of Cancer Terms(National Cancer Institute) - http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/

Directories

• National Cancer Institute Cancer Centers Program(National Cancer Institute) - http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/NCI/cancer-centers
  Also available in Spanish http://www.cancer.gov/espanol/instituto/hojas-informativas/programa-centros-oncologicos

Organizations

• American Cancer Society - http://www.cancer.org/
• National Cancer Institute - http://www.cancer.gov/

Statistics

• Cancer Stat Facts: Cancer of the Bones and Joints(National Cancer Institute) - http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/bones.html
• What Are the Key Statistics about Bone Cancer?(American Cancer Society) - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_1x_what_are_the_key_statistics_for_bone_cancer_2.asp?
• What Are the Key Statistics about Osteosarcoma?(American Cancer Society) - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_1x_what_are_the_key_statistics_for_osteosarcoma_52.asp?
• What Are the Key Statistics about the Ewing Family of Tumors?(American Cancer Society) - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/cri/content/cri_2_4_1x_what_are_the_key_statistics_for_ewings_family_of_tumors_48.asp?

Children

• Childhood Osteosarcoma(American Society of Clinical Oncology) - http://www.cancer.net/patient/Cancer+Types/Osteosarcoma+-+Childhood
• Ewings Family of Tumors - Childhood(American Society of Clinical Oncology) - http://www.cancer.net/patient/Cancer+Types/Ewings+Family+of+Tumors+-+Childhood
• Osteosarcoma in Children and Teenagers(American Academy of Family Physicians) - http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/cancer/types/762.printerview.html
  Also available in Spanish http://familydoctor.org/online/famdoces/home/common/cancer/types/762.printerview.html

Teenagers

• Family and Friends of an Osteosarcoma Patient(Indiana University Cancer Center) - http://cancer.iu.edu/osteosarcoma/familyfriends/
• Information for Osteosarcoma Patients(Indiana University Cancer Center) - http://cancer.iu.edu/osteosarcoma//patients/
• Types of Cancer Teens Get(Nemours Foundation) - http://kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/cancer/types_of_cancer.html
  Also available in Spanish http://kidshealth.org/teen/en_espanol/enfermedades/types_of_cancer_esp.html

You may also be interested in these MedlinePlus related pages:

• Bones, Joints and Muscles - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bonesjointsandmuscles.html
• Cancers - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/cancers.html

The primary NIH organization for research on Bone Cancer is the National Cancer Institute - http://www.nci.nih.gov/

Bone Cancer - Multiple Languages - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/bonecancer.html