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What are the risk factors for osteosarcoma?

April 26, 2017osteosarcoma risk factors

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What are the risk factors for osteosarcoma?

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A. Most of the time, we do not know why osteosarcoma develops in an individual child. However, osteosarcoma has been linked to certain hereditary conditions in which children are at an increased risk for developing the disease. Osteosarcoma has also been linked to previous radiation therapy given earlier in life for other types of cancer.