Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor Program
Who we are
Children can have several different types of bone and soft tissue tumors. Identifying these tumors as soon as possible is important for your child’s pain management and long-term outcome. If you suspect your child might have, or if your child has been diagnosed with, a bone or soft tissue tumor, we can help.
Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center combines the expertise of Boston Children's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to provide comprehensive medical and surgical care for children and teens with benign or malignant bone and soft tissue tumors.
Our expertise
Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center offers a multidisciplinary treatment approach to care for each child.
- Your child’s core care team will include pediatric oncologists, radiotherapists, surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, nurses and psychosocial and physical therapy specialists, among many others.
- Our pediatric surgeons are nationally recognized for their expertise in removing bone and soft tissue tumors. We adhere to limb-sparing treatment whenever possible.
- We are New England’s Phase I referral center for the Children’s Oncology Group, so we offer clinical trials unavailable at other regional centers.
- We provide long-term treatment and childhood cancer survivor support through Dana-Farber’s David B. Perini, Jr. Quality of Life Clinic.
Did you know? Advances in care
Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center was one of the first centers in the country to use adjuvant chemotherapy and perform limb salvage surgery for patients with osteosarcoma.
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