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