 I am Dr. Sriman, concerted in Autabadi, Hongkong region at Manipal Comprehensive & Center Manipal Hospitals, Bangalore. So as per initiative of July being a sarcoma awareness month, I'd like to briefly take you through as to what is a sarcoma, how do we identify an individual as a sarcoma and what are the treatment options for the same. So sarcoma is a rare group of cancers which arise from the bone soft tissue and the other components of the muscular schedule system. We often see this more in the pediatric and recently age group, but there is a widespread group of involvement of all the ages also. How does one identify or one get to know that there is a sinister part of a sarcoma being in a person. So two components have we have identified as one is pain which is without a reason and explanation tends to be there for a short duration but rapidly progresses and one experience is a lot of rest pain or night pain and the second component is swelling. A swelling which is rapidly grown in size over the recent weeks or months duration is also another red flag symptom. So one needs to be aware of these two symptoms and try to meet the doctor at the earliest to identify what is a positive factor behind it. What are the tests involved in identifying sarcoma. So we do blood test imaging which is X-ray, MRI and CT scan in some situations and once we do these tests we do find out an individual may have such problems or lesions on the imaging. And based on this we do a minimally invasive procedure called as an image-dieted biopsy where we use a small needle under aseptic and anesthetic infiltration and try to take the sample and provide it to a pathologist to help us with the diagnosis and once a sarcoma is diagnosed we further do a scan called as a whole body PET CT scan. This scan tells us whether the sarcoma or the cancer is localized to only one part of the body or as it is spread to anywhere else in the body. So once we diagnose and try to stage the person with sarcoma what do we do next. This is where teamwork comes into play. So myself and our team of oncologist, medical, radiation pathologist, radiologist and other ancillary team members get together formulate a personalized or individualized plan approach for the person suffering with sarcoma and we try to provide a single or a combination of treatment options to the person involved. So what are these options again, one is chemotherapy, one is surgery which is often a limb salvage surgery in 90 to 95% of the situations where we save the limb which has been affected with the sarcoma. Rarely we do amputations and we follow this up with radiation therapy also. So these can be given in a single or a combination based on the type and sarcoma and the extent of the disease involved. So a few options which you can also see here are also illustrated. I would like to end this video of sarcoma awareness by highlighting two points. Pain and swelling which are of not unexplainable identity or an origin needs to be investigated. So kindly meet the nearest doctor at the earliest to identify the causative factor behind the same and rule out sarcoma even though it is rare. Early identification and prompt treatment always gives the best results in our experience.