are much less common.

That means someone with knee pain should not look at a dramatic image like this and immediately conclude that they have a bone tumor.

At the same time, unusual or persistent symptoms should not simply be ignored.

Some Bone Tumors Can Develop Inside or Around the Knee

Several types of bone tumors can affect the bones around the knee.

Examples include osteosarcoma and other primary bone tumors.

Some tumors begin in bone.

Others can spread to bone from cancers that originally developed elsewhere in the body.

There’s more to discover. Continue to the next page for the rest of this article.