Abstract
The Instructional Lecture will emphasise the advantages of multidisciplinary management for musculoskeletal tumours, which have produced marked improvement in survival rates in the past 10–15 years. The roles and contributions of individual team members in relation to the overall coordinated approach, which can be provided from a single Specialist Centre, or as a managed Clinical Network.
Clinical examples will be used to illustrate the advantages of this approach to the clinical management of these uncommon and challenging conditions. These will include aggressive benign giant cell tumour, malignant osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma with pathological fracture, and a malignant fibrous histiocytoma of soft tissue.
The abstracts were prepared by Professor Jegan Krishnan. Correspondence should be addressed to him at the Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park 5047, Australia.
