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Your Multidisciplinary Team

Everyone’s journey is unique, and complex medical decisions will need to be made along the way. It takes a multidisciplinary team, composed of surgeons, radiation oncologists, and medical oncologists, to help make these decisions and provide you with the best care possible.

Your Treatment Journey

a treatment plan for spinal tumors

Surgery

Surgical intervention may be a part of your treatment journey. The surgical goal can be the complete or partial removal of the tumor and to relieve pain and discomfort, with the goal of improving your quality of life.

Often it is necessary to stabilize the spine with additional implants such as medical screws, rods, and vertebral body replacements.

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Radiation therapy

Radiation therapy may be part of your treatment journey and delivered before or after your surgery. Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation beams, targeted at the tumor, to destroy the tissue and prevent the tumor from growing. High precision is key for not damaging surrounding healthy tissue.
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Follow-up Care

Postoperative surveillance is extremely important to monitor the success of surgical tumor removal and radiation therapy. MRI is the most common form of imaging to assess for tumor recurrence.
a treatment plan for spinal tumors

Surgery

Surgical intervention may be a part of your treatment journey. The surgical goal can be the complete or partial removal of the tumor and to relieve pain and discomfort, with the goal of improving your quality of life.

Often it is necessary to stabilize the spine with additional implants such as medical screws, rods and vertebral body replacements.

Image of Radiation therapy as high-energy radiation beams, targeted at the tumor

Radiation Therapy

Radiation Therapy may be part of your treatment journey and delivered before or after your surgery. Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation beams, targeted at the tumor, to destroy the tissue and prevent the tumor from growing. High precision is key for not damaging surrounding healthy tissue.
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Follow up Care

Postoperative surveillance is extremely important to monitor the success of surgical tumor removal and radiation therapy. MRI is the most common form of imaging to assess for tumor recurrence.
a treatment plan for spinal tumors

Surgery

Surgical intervention may be a part of your treatment journey. The surgical goal can be the complete or partial removal of the tumor and to relieve pain and discomfort, with the goal of improving your quality of life.

Often it is necessary to stabilize the spine with additional implants such as medical screws, rods and vertebral body replacements.

Image of Radiation therapy as high-energy radiation beams, targeted at the tumor

Radiation Therapy

Radiation Therapy may be part of your treatment journey and delivered before or after your surgery. Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation beams, targeted at the tumor, to destroy the tissue and prevent the tumor from growing. High precision is key for not damaging surrounding healthy tissue.
Image

Follow-up Care

Postoperative surveillance is extremely important to monitor the success of surgical tumor removal and radiation therapy. MRI is the most common form of imaging to assess for tumor recurrence.
Surgery information for spine tumors

Surgery

Surgical intervention may be a part of your treatment journey. The surgical goal can be the complete or partial removal of the tumor and to relieve pain and discomfort, with the goal of improving your quality of life.

Often it is necessary to stabilize the spine with additional implants such as medical screws, rods and vertebral body replacements.

Radiation therapy icon

Radiation Therapy

Radiation Therapy may be part of your treatment journey and delivered before or after your surgery. Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation beams, targeted at the tumor, to destroy the tissue and prevent the tumor from growing. High precision is key for not damaging surrounding healthy tissue.
Spine tumor follow up care information

Follow up Care

Postoperative surveillance is extremely important to monitor the success of surgical tumor removal and radiation therapy. MRI is the most common form of imaging to assess for tumor recurrence.

Introducing

Black Armor

What is BlackArmor®?

BlackArmor® is a unique composite material made with carbon fiber. Carbon fiber is currently being used in many different facets - such as aerospace, racing cars, sports, and medical implants. It is exceptionally durable and completely radiolucent, meaning X·rays can freely pass through it.

Are BlackArmor® implants safe and strong?

The human body recognizes BlackArmor® as a nonforeign material. It is exceptionally strong and durable, like its metallic counterparts, but is also completely radiolucent.

See clearly, treat confidently

Conventional implants are made of metal, typically titanium. These implants cause interferences on medical imaging. This inhibits your care team from visualizing what they need and also does not allow your treatment providers to efficiently treat your tumor. This is where BlackArmor® can help! Unlike titanium, BlackArmor® is radiolucent, allowing X-rays to pass through it, and reduces artifacts on medical imaging, making it the ideal material for optimized tumor therapy.


Titanium vs. BlackArmor

How can BlackArmor® Optimize Each Step of Your Treatment Journey?

optimized spinal tumor surgery

It enables your surgeon to optimally manage your perioperative recovery

  • Your surgeon can better assess the surgical outcome and make clear decisions
  • Easier postoperative management for your care providers
  • Less need for aggressive surgical options, as radiation oncology can better treat the tumor
optimized spinal tumor Radiation Therapy

It improves your radiation therapy after surgery

  • More targeted and effective therapy, as the prescribed dose can be applied to the tumor tissue more accurately
  • Minimizing unwanted dose to organs at risk, reducing overall toxicity, and preserving low risk for radiation myelopathy
  • Access to safer and more effective therapy options, such as SBRT and proton therapy
  • Possibility for fewer visits, as the radiation oncology team can prescribe and treat the tumor more effectively
optimized spinal tumor follow up care

It improves your follow-up care

  • Your doctor can detect local tumor recurrence early, which allows for more treatment options and likely fewer emergency situations for you
  • Possibility for less unpleasant examinations, such as invasive CT myelograms, due to increased MRI quality
  • More confident decision-making, as more definitive diagnoses can be made

You Are in Charge!

You are the captain of the team and have a say in your care! Your choice in team is as important as your choice of material. Being well informed about therapy options and innovative technologies available to you is extremely important! Click the Locator button to find a surgeon and health system near you.
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