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 multidisciplinary 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
• Chondromas
• Chondroblastoma
• Chondrosarcoma
• Ewing sarcoma
• Osteoblastoma
• Osteosarcoma

Desmoid tumors

Endocrine tumors

• Adrenal tumors
• Carcinoid tumors
• Carney triad
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN)
• Neuroendocrine tumors
• Paragangliomas/pheochromocytomas
• Thyroid carcinoma
• Tumors of the pancreas

Germ cell tumors

• Germ cell tumors
• Ovarian tumors
• Teratoma
• Testicular tumors

Kidney (renal) tumors

• Malignant rhabdoid tumor
• Wilms tumor

Liver tumors

• Hepatoblastoma
• Hepatocellular carcinoma
• Undifferentiated embryonal sarcoma of the liver (UESL)

Neuroblastoma

• Neuroblastoma
  — including relapsed and refractory neuroblastoma

Rare tumors

• Adrenocortical carcinoma
• Melanoma
• Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
• Odontogenic tumors
• Other carcinomas and infrequent tumors

Retinoblastoma

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
• Hemangiopericytoma
• Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JNA)
• Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma
• Leiomyosarcoma
• Liposarcoma
• Malignant fibrous histiocytoma
• Neurofibrosarcoma
• Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Schwannoma (neurilemoma)
• Spitz tumors
• Synovial sarcoma