Chordoma care at Mayo Clinic
Your Mayo Clinic care team
Your Mayo Clinic care team may include neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neuro-oncologists, orthopedic surgeons, orthopedic oncologists, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, neurologists with subspecialty expertise in tumor diagnosis and management, rehabilitation specialists, and other experts who work together to provide exactly the care you need.
Having all this expertise in a single place, focused on you, means that you're not just getting one opinion — your care is discussed among the team, your test results are available quickly, appointments are scheduled in coordination, and the most highly specialized chordoma experts in the world are all working together for you. You receive comprehensive care for the diagnosis and treatment of your condition, with access to in-depth counseling, unbiased review of all available treatment options, follow-up care and rehabilitation.
The doctors at Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center provide excellent care for people with chordoma. Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center with three locations in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota.
Advanced diagnosis and treatment
Mayo Clinic experts continuously pioneer new ways to diagnose and treat chordoma. These include advanced radiation therapy and surgical innovations, such as image guided and intraoperative CT. Skull base tumor surgeries may use technologies, such as 3D endoscopy or simulations that combine surgery and proton beam therapy. Mayo Clinic experts also can create holographic images and 3D models of the tumor prior to surgery, which provides improved presurgical planning.
Radiation therapy for chordoma requires precise planning to avoid hurting nearby spinal cord and brain tissues. Radiation oncologists use the latest treatment techniques to carefully plan and deliver radiation to the tumor and minimize radiation to nearby structures. Examples include intensity-modulated radiation therapy and stereotactic body radiotherapy.
And Mayo Clinic is one of a limited number of healthcare facilities in the United States that offers a Proton Beam Therapy Program. Proton therapy is a type of radiation that uses energy from protons. The proton beams can be shaped so that they deliver the energy to exactly the right spot to hurt the tumor cells.
专长与排名
The top experts at Mayo Clinic have extensive experience caring for people with chordoma. Experts work in teams to provide you with exactly the care you need.
At Mayo Clinic, you can expect:
- Advanced diagnostic and treatment capabilities. Mayo Clinic offers rapid diagnostic testing and assessments by a team of skilled experts. Neurologists and neurosurgeons work with experienced tissue analysts to identify chordomas.
- Comprehensive cancer center. Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center meets the strict standards for a U.S. National Cancer Institute comprehensive cancer center. These standards recognize scientific excellence and a multispecialty approach focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
- Experience you can trust. Mayo Clinic doctors trained in brain and spine conditions and surgeries have experience in evaluating and treating adults and children with skull base and spinal tumors, including very rare types like chordoma.
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