James C. Wittig, MD

02/14/2026

Happy Valentines Day to all! It’s a day not only to show love to your significant others but also to show love, admiration and appreciation to all the other important people in your life and fellow man! Everything we have on earth is temporary! Appreciate it all the its fullest every day.

02/08/2026

02/08/2026

Over 10 year follow up! This has been an amazing experience and gift to me to be able to watch my patient grow up from the age of 8 years old and go to college. Diagnosed with an osteosarcoma of the upper tibia at such a young age we used at that time a new type of extendible prosthesis that allows lengthening on the office under a magnet so there is no surgery involved. She is cured and still doing great with the same prosthesis on place. Unless one actually has a child diagnosed with a cancer one can only imagine the severe fear and anxiety that parents experience. It means the world to me that they chose me to take care of their baby. It is the biggest compliment in the world that comes with huge responsibilities to save their baby’s leg and help save their baby’s life. I don’t take that compliment for granted as I am always grateful and appreciative of these many opportunities I have in life and realize I’m blessed. I try to pass on this sense of appreciation to alll the students and residents I teach.

02/06/2026

Today is National Chondrosarcoma Day! Help Raise Awareness for this rare cancer that comes from the bones and soft tissues!

02/06/2026

In honor of Awareness Day! 14 year survivor of an aggressive dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma and going strong! Treated with intensive properties and postoperative chemotherapy by renowned expert Dr Andrew Pecora at Hackensack University Medical Center and radical limb soaring surgery. I am always delights to see him in follow up doing incredibly well and being able to watch his children grow up and be successful a wonderful man and his family! Gratitude for trusting me and my team with his care and complex surgery. I am honored and privileged to take care of so many similar patients who out all their trust in me to save their limbs and help save their lives! Chondrosarcoma is an extremely rare primary bone cancer and dedifferentiated is an even rarer aggressive variety. Much research is needed to help successfully fight and treat cure this disease. Awarenenss is crucial!

02/04/2026

So proud of my boy Ronnie using all his skills to weld together this super cool protective outdoor ladder to attach to a side of a building to get on a roof.

02/04/2026

Today is National Cancer Awareness Day! 25 year follow up! I am incredibly fortunate to be able to care for so many young people and children! I get to watch them beat their cancer and grow up. This is the first child with an osteosarcoma who I took care of as a fellow in the year 1999. It’s been amazing to watch him grow into a highly successful productive young man. I also got to be close with his parents and brother. They came up from Florida to be treated by me. I’m very grateful and appreciative that they this tasted me with his complex surgery. He has been very active and he stem of his prosthesis eroded through the bone. We got him all fixed up. I was then invited up to their lake house where we were able to enjoy some wave running with his new knee and femur.

02/03/2026

Nice to see the residents studying for the OITE while providing coverage at the football game! The Orthopedic Residents are going to really TACKLE and Make TOUCHDOWNS next year on the OITE Tumor Section!

02/02/2026

Happy Birthday to the Best Dad! Good to see you still pass your pulmonary function test with flying colors. Love you!

02/01/2026

Memories! So proud of my boy the Ron Dawg and all he has accomplished since he was delivered to me by a post and adopted over 10 years ago! He is the bravest, most courageous young man I know. I encourage all who have so much abundance in their lives to share it with others and strongly consider adoption.

02/01/2026

I am ecstatic to see my patient get married! Gratitude for being thought of so highly to be invited to his wedding and celebrate with him and his family his marriage and beating his sarcoma! Two years after radical resection of a sarcoma of his deltoid. He is doing great! Back to exercise and weight lifting! He did extremely well postoperatively because of the great physical shape he was in preoperatively and has little deformity given the large size of his remaining deltoid and mobilization of it toward the deltopectoral groove.

01/28/2026

15 year follow up! I am extremely fortunate to have patients follow with me for so may years. Its incredibly fulfilling to watch them grow up and age gracefully and beat their disease! Forever grateful that they placed all their trust in me to do their complex surgeries and save their limbs and help save their lives! This lovely patient had a huge secondary Chondrosarcoma coming from her scapula. An extremely rare location. We removed the cancer and scapula with a limb saving resection and reconstructed it with a total scapula prostheis. The prosthesis remains in place without loosening providing her with a stable shoulder and good hand and elbow function. It certainly beats a forequarter amputation and in my opinion a flail shoulder if removed and just left hanging. She is doing great. I rember her case so well as she traveled from Ohio and toward the end of her surgery the hospital caught on fire. We had ti remain in the room with her intubated for a couple of hours until the fire was controlled and was safe to leave. I have a vivid memory of her remaining safely intubated and bandaged and us congregating in the corner of room with surgical masks on as smoked filled the room.