When your child is diagnosed with sarcoma, they deserve care from experts who offer the best opportunity for a
healthy, happy life.
At Atrium Health Levine Children’s, our pediatric oncologists have seen every type of sarcoma in every type of child.
This gives us the expertise to understand your child’s condition and match them with innovative treatments, designed
to target cancer and stop it from coming back.
About bone and soft tissue sarcomas
Sarcomas are tumors that start in bones or in soft tissues, like muscles, fat and nerves. We treat many types of
sarcomas, including:
Bone sarcomas
- Osteosarcoma: A common pediatric bone cancer that usually starts in a child’s arms or legs.
- Ewing's sarcoma: A cancer that starts in bones or soft tissue, often in the legs, hips, ribs,
arms or spine.
Soft tissue sarcomas
- Rhabdomyosarcoma: A soft tissue sarcoma that usually starts in the muscles of the head, neck,
arms or legs.
- Infantile fibrosarcoma: A tumor that starts in the tissues in the arms and legs, most often
affecting children under a year old.
- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor: A cancer that grows in the lining that covers nerves.
- Synovial sarcoma: A rare soft tissue sarcoma that usually starts near joints and tendons in a
child’s arms and legs.
Treatment for bone and soft tissue sarcomas
We offer leading-edge treatments including:
- Surgery to remove cancerous tissue. Our pediatric surgeons use special techniques to preserve
healthy tissue around the cancers they take out.
- Chemotherapy, or medicine that can shrink tumors and kill cancer cells. We offer outpatient
chemotherapy to as many children as possible. This lets them receive chemotherapy in the comfort of their own
homes. Orthopedic oncologists, doctors who specialize in treating bone and soft tissue cancers, are also highly
involved in surgery and chemotherapy, ensuring kids get the best possible care.
- Radiation therapy, where doctors use high-energy rays to destroy cancer cells. We often use
radiation therapy to shrink a tumor before surgery or to try to keep cancer from coming back after surgery.
Why choose Levine Children's?
Here’s why families come to Levine Children’s for bone and soft tissue sarcoma
care:
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Top pediatric oncologists. We’re home to some of the
nation's leading pediatric cancer doctors, who have vast experience with all
types of bone and soft tissue sarcomas.
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A comprehensive care team. At Levine Children’s, your child
sees a team of pediatric specialists who are on a mission to help them
overcome cancer – and the stress and changes that go with it. Our care team
includes surgeons, orthopedic oncologists, radiation oncologists, child
psychologists and other experts. We also pair each family with a nurse
navigator who helps with everything from scheduling appointments to
understanding treatment plans.
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Access to the latest therapies. We evaluate each child and
create a personalized care plan that uses the latest, most effective
treatments. We offer everything from highly precise radiation treatments to
clinical trials of promising new therapies.
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Support from the Isabella Santos Foundation (ISF).
This foundation’s
generous donations enable us to acquire tools and technologies that help our
doctors fight cancer. Many of these technologies are so new that they’re
only available at a small number of hospitals. The ISF also helped Levine
Children’s create the Isabella Santos Rare and Solid Tumors Program, which
offers innovative therapies to children with solid tumors and pursues new
therapies that could make care even better.
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Seamless care from childhood to adulthood. Cancer and its
treatments can have a lifelong impact. That’s why we transition patients
into our adult program at Levine Cancer Institute when they turn 26. This
lets patients stay in a hospital organization that knows them and that
families know and trust.