The Alexandra has a rapid access lumps and bumps clinic for insured and self-funding patients providing urgent consultations, diagnostics and results every week. The patient can be referred by a GP, Specialist or other health professional, or may even self refer.
Features to watch out for in soft tissue sarcomas are a large lump (usually larger than a golf ball), increasing size, painful and deep-seated, but not always. They can however start of as very small innocent benign looking superficial lumps.
Bone tumours may present with insidious unexplained bone pain, a mass and suspicious radiographic changes. If there’s a history of cancer, bone metastases may also present this way.