Bone cancer warning symptoms after death of Strictly judge Len Goodman

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Strictly's head judge Len Goodman sadly passed away last week aged 78 after a short battle with bone cancer.The ballroom dancer's agent announced that the much loved TV personality died at a hospice in Kent from the fairly rare disease which most people know little about.Macmillan Cancer Support say that an estimated 600 people in the UK are diagnosed with bone cancer every year with the disease being slightly more common in men than women.The three main type of bone cancers listed on the NHS website are osteosarcoma which is the most common type that mostly affects children and adults under 20, ewing sarcoma which is mainly diagnosed between people aged 10-20 and chondrosarcoma which affects people over 40 years old.The disease can affect people of any age but many bone cancers affect children and teenagers during their rapid growth spurts in puberty which give tumours an opportunity to develop.

According to the NHS, primary bone cancer can begin in any bone but cases tend to develop in the long bones of the legs or upper arms.

Primary bone cancer refers to the type of cancer that begins in your bones which is a separate condition to secondary bone cancer that spreads to your bones after developing elsewhere in the body.The main symptoms include: Some of the less common symptoms listed on the Bone Cancer Research Trust are: In most cases, it's not known what causes a person to develop bone cancer.However, there are certain risk factors that can heighten your chances of having the disease.According to the NHS, These include if you have previously been exposed to radiation during radiotherapy, have a condition known as Paget's disease of the bone or have a rare genetic condition called Li-Fraumeni syndrome.Macmillan