| Soft Tissue Sarcoma |
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Malignant tumors can also occur in the soft tissues of the extremities. Soft tissues are the muscles, skin, fat, nerves and cartilage. There are many subtypes of soft tissue sarcomas that are named because of the tissue they originate from or from the cells within the soft tissue they arise from.
Soft tissue sarcomas make up about 1.6% of all malignant tumors diagnosed country-wide, representing between 6,000 and 8,000 new cases per year.
Treatment of soft tissue sarcoma differs depending on the type of sarcoma. Chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery are the potential treatment approaches but physicians first make the diagnosis by biopsy to determine type and aggressiveness of the sarcoma before deciding what treatment or combination of treatment will work best for a patient.
There are many types of soft tissue sarcoma. The following list contains those more commonly seen by the physicians of The Denver Clinic for Extremities at Risk.
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| Malignant Extremity Tumors |
| Benign Extremity Tumors |
| Soft Tissue Sarcoma |
| Spine Tumors |
| Metastatic Bone Disease |
| Cynthia M. Kelly, MD |
 Dr. Cynthia Kelly is a member of the Denver Clinic since 1995. She specializes in soft tissue and bone tumors in all age groups. She completed her fellowship in musculoskeletal oncology at UCLA. She is a member at the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society and participates in clinical research in the areas of bone and soft tissue tumors. |
