Overview of the Stanford Sarcoma Program
With specialists dedicated to treating even the most complex cases,
the Stanford Sarcoma Program's multispecialty team utilizes
leading-edge tools and techniques to identify and treat bone cancers
such as soft tissue sarcomas, osteosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, and
chondrosarcoma, as well as angiosarcoma, synovial sarcoma,
gastrointestinal stromal tumors, uposarcoma, leiomyosarcoma and more.
Features and treatments of the Stanford Sarcoma Program include:
- Sarcoma subspecialty surgeons, who perform innovative surgical
techniques in treating sarcoma cases requiring complex surgical
strategies
- The Sarcoma tumor board, in which new patients and
challenging cases are presented weekly to a multidisciplinary
team
- Multidisciplinary sarcoma clinics, which enable patients
to undergo concurrent consultations from multiple disciplines, often
at the same appointment
- Genetic risk assessment and
counseling, available from the Cancer Center's expert team of
genetic counselors
- Specialists in physical therapy,
occupational therapy, and prosthetics, who address quality of life
issues
Unique offerings include:
- Subspecialty surgeons and innovative surgical techniques to
treat complex cases and preserve quality of life
- Advanced
radiation therapy techniques, including Stereotactic Body Radiation
Therapy (SBRT) and Intraoperative Radiotherapy (IORT)
- Clinical studies with personalized therapies and investigational
agents such as anti-angiogenesis agents and hypoxia-activating
agents for various sarcoma subtypes