Cancer Treatment

Treatment

Mayo Clinic oncologists treat virtually every type of cancer known from the most common to the most rare forms of disease. In addition, innovative treatments and services that facilitate diagnosis, reduce pain, and promote healing are available.

Diseases

• Acute lymphocytic leukemia
• Acute myelogenous leukemia
• Adenocystic carcinoma
• Adnexal tumors
• Adrenal carcinoma
• Agnogenic myeloid metaplasia
• Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma
• Alveolar soft part sarcoma
• Ameloblastoma
• Ampullary carcinoma
• Amyloidosis
• Anal cancer
• Anaplastic thyroid cancer
• Angiosarcoma
• Astrocytoma
• Bile duct/biliary cancer
• Bladder cancer
• Brain tumors (primary and secondary)
• Breast cancer
• Carcinoid tumors
• Carcinoma of unknown origin
• Cervical cancer
• Cholangiocarcinoma
• Chondrosarcoma
• Chordoma
• Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
• Chronic myelogenous leukemia
• Chronic myelomonocytic leukemia
• Clear cell sarcoma of soft tissue
• Colon cancer
• Craniopharyngioma
• Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma
• Dedifferentiated liposarcoma
• Desmoid
• Desmoplastic small round cell tumors
• Duodenal carcinoma
• Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma
• Endometrial cancer
• Ependymomas
• Epithelioid fibrosarcoma
• Epithelioid sarcoma
• Esophageal cancer
• Essential thrombocythemia
• Esthesioneuroblastoma
• Ewing sarcoma
• Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma
• Extrasketetal osteosarcoma
• Fibrosarcoma
• Floor of mouth cancer
• Follicular thyroid cancer
• Gallbladder cancer
• Gastric cancer (stomach cancer)
• Gastrinoma
• Germ cell tumors
• Glioma
• Glottic cancer
• Glucagonoma
• Hairy cell leukemia
• Head and neck tumors
• Hemangiopericytoma
• Hepatoma
• Hodgkin lymphoma
• Hurthle cell tumor
• Hypopharynx cancer
• Infantile fibrosarcoma
• Inflammatory breast cancer
• Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor
• Insulinoma
• Islet cell cancer
• Kaposi sarcoma
• Kidney cancer
• Large granular lymphocyte disorders
• Larynx cancer
• Leiomyosarcoma of bone
• Leukemia
• Lip cancer
• Liposarcoma
• Liposarcoma of bone
• Liver cancer (primary and secondary)
• Lung cancer – small cell, non-small cell, secondary lung tumors (metastases)
• Lymphoma
• Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH)
• Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of bone
• Malignant mesenchymoma
• Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
• Medulloblastoma
• Melanoma
• Meningioma
• Merkel cell carcinoma
• Mesenchymal chondrosarcoma
• Mesothelioma
• Monoclonal gammopathy-associated conditions including c1-esterase inhibitor deficiency, cryoglobulinemia, osteosclerotic myeloma, peripheral neuropathy, POEMS syndrome, and systemic capillary leak syndrome
• Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance
• Mucoepidermoid carcinoma
• Multiple myeloma
• Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1
• Myelodysplastic syndromes
• Myelofibrosis with myeloid metaplasia
• Myeloproliferative disorders
• Myxoid liposarcoma
• Myxoinflammatory fibroblastic sarcoma
• Myxofibrosarcoma
• Nasal cancer
• Nasopharynx cancer
• Natural killer cell leukemia
• Neuroblastoma
• Neuroendocrine tumors
• Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
• Nonmelanoma skin cancer
• Oligodendrogliomas
• Oral cavity cancer
• Oral tongue cancer
• Osteosarcoma
• Ovarian cancer
• Pancreatic cancer
• Papillary thyroid cancer
• Paraganglionoma
• Parosteal osteosarcoma
• Pediatric tumors
• Periosteal osteosarcoma
• Pharynx cancer
• Pituitary adenoma
• Pituitary tumors
• Pleomorphic liposarcoma
• Pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma
• PNET/extraskeletal Ewing tumor
• Polycythemia rubra vera
• Prolymphocytic leukemia
• Prostate cancer
• Pyriform sinus cancer
• Rectal cancer
• Rhabdomyosarcoma
• Round cell liposarcoma
• Salivary duct tumors
• Salivary gland cancer
• Sarcoma
• Sinus cancer
• Skin cancers
• Small bowel cancers
• Small cell osteosarcoma
• Soft palate cancer
• Solitary fibrous tumor
• Spinal cord tumors
• Stomach cancer (gastric cancer)
• Supraglottic cancer
• Synovial sarcoma
• Telangiectatic osteosarcoma
• Testicular cancer
• Throat cancer
• Thymoma
• Thyroid cancer
• Tongue base cancer
• Tonsil cancer
• Uterine cancer
• Uterine sarcoma
• Vaginal cancer
• Vulvar cancer
• Waldenström macroglobulinemia
• Wilms' tumors

Treatments and Services

Mayo Clinic's state-of-the-art facilities and expert staff make it possible to deliver the most innovative, progressive care anywhere. The cutting-edge treatments and services available include:

• Bone marrow transplantation
• Chemotherapy
• Electronic portal imaging device (EPID) target localization
• Familial cancer genetics screening and counseling
• Hyperthermia
• Radiation therapy
• Gamma knife radiosurgery
• High dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy
• Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
• Intraoperative radiation therapy (both with HDR and linear accelerator)
• Intravascular brachytherapy
• Low dose rate brachytherapy for ocular melanoma
• Permanent prostate brachytherapy
• Small field conformal radiation therapy
• Radiofrequency ablation of tumors