title: Paediatric surgical oncology. 3--Bone tumours.
abstract: Bone tumours are rare--they represent less than 1% of all malignancies but about 6% in the paediatric population. Early diagnosis, chemotherapy and limb salvage surgery can result in 60% cure rates with a near normal functional outcome. Surgery plays a major part in the management of these tumours, and is technologically as well as surgically exacting.
authors.affiliation: Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Oncology Service, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Grimer
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Carter
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods