First, I would like to say I'm so sorry for the loss of your best friend. I know that had to be very difficult. As a bone cancer (chondrosarcoma) survivor, I found out it is one of the hardest cancers to detect. It is often misdiagnosed because they are often slow-growth tumors, so in the beginning stages, the pain is intermittent. You feel fine for awhile and then go through a period of excruciating pain and then it subsides again - so it's very confusing.I went to see doctors and specialists for three years because of the pain and I was told I had everything from sciatica to arthritis - and at one point, when the lump in my groin area was visible, a doctor tested me for syphilis! I was never even offered a simple x-ray! It took my falling down and fracturing my pelvis, to finally get a CT Scan and MRI at which point, I found out I had a bone tumor the size of a small softball. My orthopedic oncologist tried to save my leg through resection surgeries, but the cancer kept coming back at higher grades/stages and I was left with only 2 options - get a complete hemipelvectomy or die. I chose life and have thankfully made the ten year mark (when this type of cancer will probably not recur), but I've been told there are still no guarantees. I'm not sure the circumstance surrounding your friend's bone cancer and what her warning signs were, but I just want you to know, it is not unusual to have it diagnosed after it's too late and it's metastasized to the lungs. Had my doctors given me the x-Ray when I first started complaining of the pain, it would have been a much smaller tumor and they might have saved right my leg, pelvis and hip. I'm not saying what happened to her is any less devastating with this knowledge. We just need to fight to get the medical world and insurance companies to approve tests, even if they are expensive when someone comes in complaining of the chronic pain and their diagnosis and treatment isn't working. Thank you for sharing your story. I can't imagine how difficult this was/is for you. Kind Regards... J

Jojee,
A friend of ours went thru the same thing .When it was to late they found the bone cancer
It has now spread all over.
We have been friends for 34 years and have been staying with him during the day so his wife can still get a few hours in where she works
I am so mad I can hardly see straight that they did not catch it sooner
Like you they treated him for everything but the cancer
He was DX'ED Dec 17th and is hardly more than a vegetable now
He gets up and goes to the bathroom and right back to bed and is out
We were praying he would fight it off but the radiation seems to take more out of him than he is gaining so they have stopped them

If anyone feels alone or would ever like to talk about this feel free to message me k I'm here.