The April 2015 Oncology Roundup. 360 . looks at: New hope for skull base tumours; Survival but at what cost?; Synovial sarcoma beginning to be cracked?; Wound complications facing soft-tissue sarcoma surgeons; Amputation may offer no survival benefit over reconstruction; Giant cell tumour in the longer term; Intralesional treatment comparable with excision in GCT of the radius?; Imaging prior to oncological referral; And finally…

The April 2012 Oncology Roundup. 360 . looks at chondrosarcoma of the cervical spine, if excision margins matter, radiation-induced sarcomas, giant cell tumours and bone cement, enchondromatosis and malignant change, axial or appendicular Ewing’s sarcoma, and diagnosing a sarcoma

The August 2012 Oncology Roundup. 360. looks at: prolonged symptom duration; peri-operative mortality and above-knee amputation; giant cell tumour of the spine; surgical resection for Ewing’s sarcoma; intercalary allograft reconstruction of the femur for tumour defects; and an induced membrane technique for large bone defects

The August 2015 Oncology Roundup. 360 . looks at: Glasgow prognostic score in soft-tissue sarcoma; Denosumab in giant cell tumour; Timing, complications and radiotherapy; Pigmented villonodular synovitis and arthroscopy; PATHFx: estimating survival in pathological cancer; Prosthetic lengthening of short stumps; Chondrosarcoma and pathological fracture

The June 2013 Oncology Roundup. 360 . looks at: whether allograft composite is superior to megaprosthesis in massive reconstruction; pain from glomus tumours; thromboembolism and orthopaedic malignancy; bone marrow aspirate and cavity lesions; metastasectomy in osteosarcoma; spinal giant cell tumour; post-atomic strike sarcoma; and superficial sarcomas and post-operative infection rates

The April 2014 Oncology Roundup. 360 . looks at: Eyeball as good as microscope for tumour margins; when is best to stabilise femoral metastases?; fluorine does not cause bone tumours; whether giant cell tumour of the proximal femur ever successfully managed; extraskeletal osteosarcoma; modular lower limb tumour reconstruction; and observational studies the basis for most bone tumour treatment

The October 2013 Oncology Roundup. 360 . looks at: En bloc resection, irradiation and re-implantation; Metastasis and osteosarcoma; Mobile spine and osteosarcoma; Denosumab miraculous for GCT; Fevers, megaprostheses and sarcomas; PET and prognosis; Canine sarcomas not so different?; Bone cement and giant cell tumours

The June 2015 Oncology Roundup. 360 . looks at: Infection in megaprosthesis; Impressive results for mid femoral reconstruction; Revered teaching or old myth? Femoral neck protection in metastatic disease; Megaprosthesis about the knee; Malignant transformation in multiple hereditary exostoses; Fracture of intercalary bone allograft; Comorbidity and outcomes in sarcoma; A worrying turn? Use of denosumab for giant cell tumour of bone

The February 2014 Oncology Roundup³⁶⁰ looks at: suspicious lesions; limb salvage in pelvic sarcomas; does infection affect oncological survival?; cancer patient pathways; radiological arthritis with cement augmentation in GCT; and post-chemotherapy increase in tumour volume as a predictor of poor prognosis.