Many conditions can cause hip pain and cancer is one of them.
Hip sarcoma symptoms.
Other symptoms may be signs of soft tissue sarcoma because a sarcoma tumor can form almost anywhere in the body and can therefore affect a variety of organs.
Webmd explains the symptoms causes and treatment.
A sarcoma is a rare kind of cancer that grows in connective tissue cells that connect or support other kinds of tissue in your body.
The defining characteristic of a chondrosarcoma is that its cells produce cartilage.
Skin lesions can occur when a sarcoma tumor breaks through the skin.
Hip cancer can also originate in the bone marrow cartilage and soft tissue.
Soft tissue sarcoma can occur anywhere in your body but the most common types occur in the arms and legs and in the abdomen.
Among these cancer types the most common are leukemia and multiple myeloma which form in the bone marrow.
The most common locations for chondrosarcoma tumors are in the pelvis hip and shoulder.
More rarely the base of the skull is affected.
Some tumors can restrict motion such as those found in the hip knee shoulder or hands.
Chondrosarcoma is a rare type of cancer that usually begins in the bones but can sometimes occur in the soft tissue near bones.
Surgical removal is the most common treatment although radiation and chemotherapy also may be recommended depending on the size type location and aggressiveness of the tumor.