Beginning the Pediatric Sarcoma Journey
Dr. Leonard Wexler: The journey is just that. I think that the most difficult thing to understand is that one can't master all the information that one needs to master in the course of an hour or two or three. It's a process.
The concept of integrated team care, at least at this center, is that the pediatric oncologist is very much a quarterback and will steer a family to the radiologist and the surgeon and the radiation oncologist and the pathologist, if necessary, who can put all the pieces of the puzzle together to be certain that the proper diagnosis is rendered, that the proper imaging studies are performed, that an appropriate chemotherapy treatment plan is formulated when chemotherapy is needed, which is most of the time, and that a full range of options, surgical, radiation or both, can be evaluated.