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Cancer care has changed dramatically with the development of new treatments. Overall survival, as well as disease free survival and progression free survival, has been changing in favor of prolonged times making surgical approaches different when musculoskeletal metastasis developed and allowing the development of new technologies as well.
This book brings together current evidence-based approaches to surgically treat musculoskeletal metastasis keeping in consideration a multidisciplinary approach. Chapters not only describe state-of-the-art surgical techniques and options to treat these patients, but also different scenarios of metastatic spread and how other specialties intervene to obtain the best oncological and functional outcomes in these patients.
This book will serve as a comprehensive guide for musculoskeletal oncology surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and other healthcare professionals involved in the multidisciplinary management of musculoskeletal metastasis. The combination of practical principles, advanced technologies, and ethical considerations aims to provide a holistic approach to enhance patient care and outcomes.
List of contents
Section I: General Concepts.-1. Overview of Musculoskeletal Metastases.-2. Understanding Musculoskeletal Metastasis.-3. Multidisciplinary Treatment of Musculoskeletal Metastases.- Section II: Patient Assessment & Diagnostic Approach.-4. Patient Assessment and Selection.-5. Nutritional Evaluation of Patients with Metastatic Disease.-6. Radiological Assessment: From Plain Radiographs to Advanced Cross-Sectional Studies.-7. Obtaining tissue samples: What s the best approach?.-8. Pathological Assessment of metastatic disease to the musculoskeletal system.-9. Has my cancer spread? Staging strategies.-10. I am not crazy: Why do I need to see a mental health specialist?.- Section III: Principles of Surgical Intervention.-11. Overview of surgical indications and outcomes.-12. Oops ... this is about to break! Impending Pathological Fractures of long bones.-13. Management of Spinal Metastatic Disease.-14. Management of pelvic metastasis Minimally Invasive Pelvic Surgery.-15.
About the author
Juan A. Pretell, MD, FAAOS
Professor, Orthopedic Surgery
Florida International University
Program Director, Orthopedic Surgery Program
Baptist Health South Florida / Florida International University.
Chief of Musculoskeletal Oncology
Miami Cancer Institute
Baptist Health of South Florida.
Kendall, FL
Santiago Lozano-Calderon, MD, PhD, FAAOS, FAOA
Program Director Harvard Combined Musculoskeletal Oncology Fellowship
Musculoskeletal Oncology Service
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute Endowed Chair VII
Associate Professor in Orthopedic Surgery
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
Summary
Cancer care has changed dramatically with the development of new treatments. Overall survival, as well as disease free survival and progression free survival, has been changing in favor of prolonged times making surgical approaches different when musculoskeletal metastasis developed and allowing the development of new technologies as well.
This book brings together current evidence-based approaches to surgically treat musculoskeletal metastasis keeping in consideration a multidisciplinary approach. Chapters not only describe state-of-the-art surgical techniques and options to treat these patients, but also different scenarios of metastatic spread and how other specialties intervene to obtain the best oncological and functional outcomes in these patients.
This book will serve as a comprehensive guide for musculoskeletal oncology surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and other healthcare professionals involved in the multidisciplinary management of musculoskeletal metastasis. The combination of practical principles, advanced technologies, and ethical considerations aims to provide a holistic approach to enhance patient care and outcomes.
