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Sarcoma Treatment
Sarcomas are rare (only about 1 percent of all cancer cases annually), and they can be difficult to diagnose. The best place to go for diagnosis and treatment of these rare cancers is an academic medical center where our doctors provide the most up-to-date treatments to hundreds of people with sarcoma every year.
"We see people who are diagnostic challenges," says Dr. Conrad, director of SCCA's Sarcoma Service. "Sarcomas are the one tumor that'll make a fool out of a doctor because it's very difficult to distinguish the benign from the malignant. In addition, sarcoma has very subtle symptoms, typically just a mass but no pain."
About one-half of the tumors seen by sarcoma physicians are malignant, or cancerous, Dr. Conrad says. The treatment you will receive for sarcoma at SCCA and its parent organizations depends on what type of sarcoma you have, whether it is benign or malignant, and whether you are at adult or a child.
Doctors at SCCA see about 100 new adult patients a year with bone cancers and about 400 new adult patients with soft tissue sarcomas.
We offer our patients breakthroughs in treatment, including limb-sparing surgery, and neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
Posted January 2004
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