Orthopedic Oncology: An Overview

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Orthopedic Oncology: An Overview If adults and children are diagnosed with tumours and tumour-like conditions in their bones and soft tissues a special clinical division called Orthopedic Oncology can provide them with expert care and medications. This clinical division also deals with clinical symptoms like metastases, sarcomas, benign, and cancerous tumours of the bones or soft tissues. It is a special branch of healthcare that also deals with issues like pathologic fractures. Oncology specializes in the study, research, management and treatment of cancer. This branch of medicine covers all aspects of cancers, starting from the diagnosis and identification of cancer cells to all different forms of treatment for cancers and tumours. Ortho-oncology is a special division of Oncology that diagnose, provide treatments, and cure musculoskeletal cancers. For the diagnosis and treatment of bone cancers or tissue cancers, there is no substitution for ortho-oncology. Ortho-oncologists help you recover from other cancers that affected your bones.

Orthopedic Oncology provides support for bone cancer treatment. This special medical branch deals with different types of ortho-oncology cancers like Osteosarcoma, Ewing Sarcoma, Chondrosarcoma, Chordoma, and many more. There are other soft tissue sarcomas that start spreading from the bones such as UPS or Undifferentiated Pleomorphic Sarcoma, Fibrosarcoma, Sarcoma of Paget’s disease of the bone. Bone cancers affect the


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