Our Orthopaedic Oncology team provides compassionate care to children, adolescents and adults with primary bone and soft tissue tumours (benign and malignant) and metastatic disease.

Compassionate, Multidisciplinary Treatment

For some years, the CORAS  Hospital, Orthopaedic Oncology Service has treated children, adolescents and adults with primary bone and soft tissue tumours (benign and malignant) and metastatic disease.

Bone and soft tissue sarcomas are among the rarest malignant tumours treated. There are many new cases of primary bone tumours each year, which accounts for less than 0.2% of all adult cancer cases. And there many new primary soft tissue tumours each year, which account for 1% of all adult cancer cases. Because of this, we take a comprehensive approach to treating these rare tumours, incorporating every resource the hospital has to offer to ensure our patients receive the best and most current treatment available.

Treatment plans are coordinated through our team approach and includes orthopaedic oncology surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, pathologists, radiologists and nurse practitioners. Medical and surgical experts work together seamlessly to provide treatment programs that are individually designed for each patient. We carefully assess outcomes and take pride in making it possible for our patients to live their lives as fully as possible.

Orthopaedic Oncology:

• Limb and Joint Salvage Surgery for extremity bone tumors using a range of optimal options including different types of megaprosthesis, allografts, autografts, ECRT, etc.
• Extended curettage and reconstruction procedures for aggressive benign bone tumors like Giant Cell Tumors, etc.
• Limb salvage surgeries in soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities
• Limb salvage in pelvic bone tumors
• Complex and high level limb amputation surgeries for advanced sarcomas
• Surgery for sacral and spine tumors
• Specialized surgical procedures for pediatric musculoskeletal tumor patients to account for their growing limbs
• Minimally invasive needle biopsies
• Radiofrequency ablation of specific bone tumors like osteoid osteoma, etc.
• Prophylactic and optimal palliative surgical procedures and advice for patients with bone metastases
• Major skin tumors of the extremities
• Extensive counselling of patient and family regarding their condition.