Osteomas are benign bony outgrowths (new bone growth) mostly found on the skull and facial bones. If the bone tumor grows on another bone, it is called homoplastic osteoma. If it grows on tissue, it is called eteroplastic osteoma.
Skull base osteomas are slow growing and generally cause no symptoms. However, large osteomas in some locations may cause problems with breathing, vision or hearing.
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Chordoma: Drug screening starts to find new treatment for rare bone cancer
The Chordoma Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to Dr. Gary Gallia, a skull-base neurosurgeon and cancer biologist at Johns Hopkins. Gallia’s focus is on developing new therapies for brain and skull-based tumors. His lab has a long record of studying mouse models of brain tumors and he has developed a xenograft mouse model to study chordoma.
The Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Brain Tumor Center is a National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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