Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor Program

Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center offers a multidisciplinary treatment approach to care for each child. We provide long-term pediatric cancer treatment and support through Dana-Farber’s David B. Perini, Jr. Quality of Life Clinic.

Our pediatric surgeons are nationally recognized for their expertise in removing pediatric bone tumors and soft tissue tumors in children. We adhere to limb-sparing treatment whenever possible.

Whether your child’s tumor is benign or malignant, he or she will have access to experienced pediatric oncologists, orthopedists, radiotherapists, surgeons, pathologists, radiologists, nurses and psychosocial and physical therapy specialists all with a high level of expertise in benign and malignant bone and soft tissue tumors.  They will work together to provide state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary care for your child.  Because we are New England’s Phase I referral center for the Children’s Oncology Group—an international consortium of cancer treatment centers that conducts studies of pediatric cancers—we also offer clinical trials that are unavailable at other regional centers.

Dana-Farber/Children’s Hospital Cancer Center was one of the first childhood cancer care centers in the country to use adjuvant chemotherapy and to perform limb salvage surgery for pediatric oncology patients with osteosarcoma, an aggressive bone tumor.

Most recently, our center has been involved in a long-term follow-up study to learn about quality of life and outcomes for limb salvage surgery, rotationplasty and amputation for children who have sarcoma of the lower leg. The team is also researching the effectiveness of non-invasive vs. open treatments for aneurysmal bone cysts.