WHAT IS SARCOMA
A patient’s guide:
Professor Peter Choong
MBBS MD FRACS FAOrthA FAAHMS MAICD.
Orthopaedic Surgeon
What is a sarcoma?
A sarcoma is a rare tumour that starts from a cell called a mesenchymal cell. Mesenchymal cells support other cells much like mortar supports bricks in a wall.
Because supporting cells occur throughout the body, sarcoma can occur anywhere.
There are soft tissue sarcomas, which occur as lumps in muscle, and bone sarcomas, which are tumour that start within a bone.
For further information:
Please request an article written by Professor Choong on Tumours. It’s available from Central Melbourne Orthopaedics.
Please ask at reception for a copy:
Choong, P.F.M. and Sim, F.H., 2000. Tumours. Current Orthopaedics, 14(2), pp.117-132.
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