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• n  malignant bone tumor; most common in children and young adults where it tends to affect the femur

• The group cited "decades of peer-review studies" on fluoride's "ability to mutate DNA and its known deposition on the ends of growing bones, the site of osteosarcoma"--a rare .
• But because it causes the deposition of new bone, it has the potential to cause uncontrolled bone growth and osteosarcoma tumors; to avoid that, the drug can be given only for .
• The 2001 thesis showed a sevenfold increased risk of osteosarcoma in preadolescent boys from fluoridated water.

• osteogenic sarcoma

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• What we learned from Zach Sobiech’s death: The emotional side of big data
  Zach Sobiech used his songs to say goodbye to the world. The world, it seems, is still not quite ready to let go. A few years ago, Sobiech was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer. ...
  June 10, 2013 - Quartz via Yahoo! Finance