Types of Solid Tumors in Children and Teens

The Solid Tumor Center at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center treats children and teens with a variety of solid malignancies, from bone and soft-tissue tumors to liver and kidney tumors. Our doctors apply a multidiscplinary approach to treating solid tumors that includes surgery, interventional radiology, radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Some of the conditions we treat:

Bone tumors (also called bone sarcomas)

• Adamantinoma
• Chondrosarcoma
• Desmoid tumor
• Ewing sarcoma
• Osteosarcoma

Soft tissue tumors (also called soft tissue sarcomas)

• Soft-tissue sarcomas (overview)
• Alveolar soft-part sarcoma
• Angiosarcoma
• Clear cell sarcoma
• Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans
• Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma
• Fibrosarcoma
• Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JNA)
• Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma
• Leiomyosarcoma
• Liposarcoma
• Malignant fibrous histiocytoma
• Peripheral nerve sheath tumor (neurofibrosarcoma)
• Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Spitz tumors
• Synovial sarcoma

Germ cell tumors

• Neuroblastoma
  — including relapsed and refractory neuroblastoma