One Response to “Cordoma (sacral) med. treatment?”

1. admin says:

   January 31, 2010 at 10:51 pm

   Siegmann, Udo <101465.3…@CompuServe.COM> wrote:
   >Case: 60 year old woman, sacral chordoma, status after 2
   >operations, now excessive growth with local nerval compression.
   >Any info on medical (chemotherapy) treatment or radiation
   >success?
   >—
   >Udo Siegmann, Company PAREXEL, Berlin (Germany)
   >FAX: +49-30-30685-200

   I don’t know if this would apply to this case; it was found on the
   Internet at:

   http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/proton-b.htm

   from:

   Massachusetts General Hospital
   Harvard Medical School

   Paul Chapman, M.D., Chief
   Bragg Peak Proton Beam Radiosurgery Unit

   The Proton Beam Unit was founded in 1962 and has the largest
   experience with stereotactic
   radiosurgery of any center in the United States. Proton beam offers
   certain theoretical advantages
   over other modalities of stereotactic radiosurgery (i.e. gamma knife
   and linear accelerators) because
   it makes use of the quantum wave properites of protons to reduces
   doses to surrounding tissue to a
   theoretical minimum of zero. In practice, the proton facility offers
   advantages for the treatment of
   unusually shaped brain tumors and arteriovenous malformations. It also
   has the ability to treat tumors
   outside of the cranial cavity make it the ideal post-resection therapy
   for many chordomas and certain
   chondrosarchomas of the spine and skull base.

   Hope this helps at least point you in the right direction.

   If you need any more info because of lack of Internet access, please
   e-mail me for more.

   Doris A. Nerding