Understanding sarcomas, or bone cancer

Send us Fan MailComprehensive, relevant and insightful conversations about health and medicine happen here… on MedStar Health DocTalk. … real conversations with physician experts from around the largest healthcare system in the Maryland-DC region.It takes as much as 1200 to 1800 pounds of pressure to break the human thigh bone. But an unexpected snap of that bone could be the first sign of the one cancer we don’t talk enough about: sarcomas, or - bone cancer.  Dr. Albert Aboulafia, head of the Division of Orthopedic Oncology for MedStar Health in Baltimore AND medical director of the Weinberg Cancer Institute at MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center, shares information on bone tumors known as Osteosarcoma. For more episodes of MedStar Health DocTalk, go to medstarhealth.org/doctalk.