During his National University tenure, Prof Suresh Nathan established and grew the Orthopaedic Oncology Unit, which handles bone and soft tissue tumors in all age groups from children to adults, into the largest of its kind in Singapore. He continues to contribute his expertise into the group with 50 years experience and 100 publications and has been credited with significant discoveries in musculoskeletal oncology – chief amongst them molecular basis of bone tumor growth and microsurgical joint transfers. 'Orthopaedic oncology' or 'musculoskeletal oncology' offers a very wide range of abilities from prosthetic to bone transplant type options because our specialists hold dual roles as either joint replacement or microsurgical surgeons. It is therefore a completely unique resource specialized in the care of this very demanding field in South East Asia. Common Signs & Symptoms
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Diagnosis
Figure 1. The diagnosis is often apparent on a simple xray in as high as 90% of cases. The other modalities are for staging and planning of surgery. Following these various modalities the patient is given a stage to indicate how far it has spread: Figure 2. Staging incorporates the aggressiveness, size and extent of spread to give an idea of how advanced the disease is.
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