Fractures and bone cancer. Frontal X-ray of the right arm of a 63-year-old patient,showing myeloma (blood cell cancer,white mass,centre) in the mid-section of the humerus (upper arm bone). Two fractures are also seen; at the site of the cancer,and further down the arm below the cancer. Myeloma is a cancer of plasma cells,a type of white blood cell. Collections of abnormal plasma cells accumulate in the bone marrow,where they from a tumour that interferes with the production of normal blood cells | |
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