Bone Tumors, Are They Fatal? - Dr. Beauchamp (VIDEO)
Dr. Beauchamp explains if a bone tumor is a fatal diagnosis.
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Dr. Beauchamp:
There are tumors that, while they are malignant, which means that they have the capability of spreading to other parts of the body, can be what we call a low grade, slow growing, low potential to spread to other parts of the body, all the way up to the opposite of the scale of a very aggressive threatening, high grade, aggressive type of tumor that carries with it an increased risk of spreading elsewhere in the body, and there’s a whole range of tumors in between.
About Dr. Beauchamp, M.D.:
Dr. Christopher P. Beauchamp, M.D., is an orthopedic surgery and Associate Professor of Orthopedics at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. He focuses specifically on musculoskeletal oncology, adult reconstructive orthopedics, bone and soft tissue sarcomas, and infected, failed joint arthroplasty.
