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Pain is one of the most common and troubling symptoms of bone cancer, be it primary bone cancer (sarcoma)…

Stage 4 bone cancer is an advanced stage of bone cancer. It can also be called metastatic bone cancer. It starts to spread to other areas of the body…

When we say bone cancer, it refers to the first group of cancers mentioned above, called ‘primary bone cancer’. It belongs to a family of cancers called ‘Sarcoma’.

‘Grade’ of the tumor tells us how aggressive the disease is; especially about its tendency to metastasize (spread to other regions of the body).

Biopsy is a minor surgical procedure in which a small piece of the tumor tissue is sampled and sent for evaluation to a pathologist, who examines it under a microscope to establish its exact histological identity/name (diagnosis).

‘‘Core Needle Biopsy’ in skilled hands, offers significant advantages over ‘Open Biopsy’ and therefore, it is the preferred method for obtaining tumor tissue samples.