OBJECT: Metastastic lesions have been reported in 5 to 40% of patients with spinal and sacrococcygeal chordoma, but few contemporary series of chordoma metastastic disease exist in the literature.

They have cancer cells that have spread into the bone from a cancer elsewhere in ... These are treated the same way as Ewing bone tumours. Chordoma is a very rare, slow growing type of bone cancer.