Sarcoma And Melanoma Surgery UAE
Soft tissue sarcoma is rare cancer, which starts in the soft tissues of the body of the patient. Generally, it rises from the soft tissue which includes fat, nerves, muscles, blood, tendons, and blood vessels. Sarcoma can happen anywhere in the body and about 40 percent occurs in the arms and legs. At Burjeel Medical City, we provide the best sarcoma and melanoma surgery UAE that helps the patient to retrieve from this disease.
Melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer, this cancerous growth develops when unrepaired DNA damages the skin cells and is most often caused by the ultraviolet radiation from the sun or tanning beds that directly triggered the skin cells to multiply rapidly and form the epidermis. Sometimes it resembles moles; develops from moles. The majority of melanoma is black and brown, but they can also be skin-colored like pink, red, purple, blue, or white. It is mainly caused by intense, occasional UV exposure and especially for the ones who are genetically predisposed to this disease. Burjeel Medical City Hospital Dubai offers Sarcoma and Melanoma surgery UAE.
Our surgeons, oncologists, and radiologists, pathologists use a multidisciplinary approach (MDT) including a physical exam, imaging tests, or a biopsy to confirm the diagnosis and determine the stage of the disease and treat it with their latest sarcoma and melanoma surgery UAE.
Depending on the stage of the disease our experts may recommend treatment with surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy, or multimodality combination therapy. The expertise of HIPC and Limb infusion with target immunotherapy are also available.
Points of Interest to Patients in Sarcoma & Melanoma
- leiomyosarcoma
- Angiosarcoma
- Dermatofibrosarcoma
- Rahmbosarcoma
- Fibrous Tumors
- Liposarcoma
- Acral melanoma
- Soft tissue tumors
- Pigmented skin lesions
- Sentinel LN Bx
- Gamma Probe
- Lymph node dissection
- Blue Dye
- MDT
- Limb infusion
- Target therapy
- The immunotherapy drugs are ipilimumab, pembrolizumab, nivolumab, and talimogene laherparepvec.
- Mohs Surgery
- HIPEC
- Nodular melanoma
- Metastatic sarcoma & Melanoma
- Resection margin
- PET Scan
- Survival of tumor
- Skin graft, flaps, and free flap
- Frozen Section evaluation
- Tertiary Center of Referral
- Day Surgery
- Retroperitoneal sarcoma
- Limb Sarcoma
- Neoadjuvant Radiation
- Second opinion
Pictures of Recently Performed Surgeries
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- Bony tumor resection May 2016.
- Extremity sarcoma with a skin graft. Sept 2015 (1)
- Extremity sarcoma with a skin graft. Sept 2015 (2)
- Finger melanoma. June 2013
- Retroperitoneal sarcoma (1). June 2014
- Retroperitoneal sarcoma (2). June 2014
- Sarcoma of the groin. May 2015
- Soft tissue thigh sarcoma. April 2016
- Sarcoma of the shoulder after resection and skin graft. Nov 2016
Sarcoma Tips
Types of Sarcoma leiomyosarcoma - Smooth muscle is called leiomyosarcoma>
- Sarcoma of the gastrointestinal tract is called gastrointestinal stromal tumor
- Fatty tissue (also called adipose tissue) is called liposarcoma
- Sarcoma of the peripheral nervous system is called malignant schwannoma or malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor treated by sarcoma and melanoma surgery UAE.
- Sarcoma of blood vessels is called angiosarcoma, hemangioendothelioma, hemangiopericytoma, or solitary fibrous tumor
- Connective tissue is called fibrosarcoma, dermatofibrosarcoma, low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma, or fibromatosis
Types of Sarcoma leiomyosarcoma The soft tissue of the sarcoma tumors can be affecting the tissue more than once or have no clear origin. This is the factor of alveolar soft part sarcoma that clear cell sarcoma, synovial sarcoma, and epithelioid sarcoma differentiated the soft tissues of the sarcoma. Visit Burjeel Medical City Hospital for sarcoma and melanoma surgery UAE where the world’s best doctors deal with all kinds of health issues.
Risk Factors:
Certain inherited medical conditions, such as neurofibromatosis, Gardner’s syndrome, Li-Fraumeni syndrome, and retinoblastoma, can make a person more susceptible to developing soft tissue sarcoma. But most of the time, there’s no clear reason why this cancer develops. Some types are more common for people of certain age groups, however. For example, rhabdomyosarcoma appears more often in children than in adults, and synovial sarcoma is more common in adolescents.
Our team will guide the patient and the family step by step through all stages of the diagnosis and treatment plan to achieve results based on international guidelines and benchmarks.
Many inherited medical conditions like neurofibromatosis, Li-Fraumeni syndrome, retinoblastoma, and Gardner’s syndrome can make a patient more susceptible to developing soft tissue sarcoma but most of the time, there is no clear reason mentioned why this cancer develops. Some types are more common among patients of a certain age and group. For example, rhabdomyosarcoma appears more often in children rather than adults, and synovial sarcoma is more common in adolescents.
Our team of sarcoma and melanoma surgery UAE will guide the patient and the family step by step through all stages of the diagnosis and offers the treatment plan to achieve the best results based upon international guidelines and benchmarks.