My grand father is suffering from spine pain from last 2 month, after MRI test a tumor has been seen in the spine, in the MRI image tumor part has covered the bone & it has gone white. Patient admitted at forties hospital & doctor is suggesting for surgery. What to do?

Dr. Sunil SrivastavaOrthopedist37yrs exp

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Hi Fortis is a good hospital. Spine tumors have to be biopsied or FNAC for finding if it's benign or malignant. Excision of tumor is done for benign lesion and defect filled with bone graft, fusion of vertebra etc, if malignant then type and nature of tumor, whether more extended surgery or radiotherapy or chemotherapy responsiveness guide treatment guidelines. I may suggest biopsy, fnac before surgery for confirmation of diagnosis first. If patient has no other problems, like prostate, lung, kidneys etc this could be primary bone tumor. Doctors do PET -Ct glucose uptake study or bone scans before surgery to look for other focus of tumors or secondaries, or diagnosing benign or malignant nature. 

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