A center and a clinical-care path dedicated to soft tissue sarcomas, rare and complex tumors, will be inaugurated at the end of the month at the Agostino Gemelli IRCCS University Polyclinic Foundation.
“Over the last five years – explains Fabio Pacelli, director of the UOC of Peritoneal and Retroperitoneal Surgery and Associate of General Surgery at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome campus – we have seen our activity in the sarcoma sector grow exponentially of the retroperitoneum, so much so that we are positioned in terms of volumes of activity as one of the first reference centers in the Centre-South. For this reason, we have decided to establish a Sarcoma Centre, which will be inaugurated on 25 March”. To this, a Soft Tissue Sarcoma Clinical Care Path has been linked, which will facilitate patient access through the Gemelli-Cancer Help Desk to a treatment path divided into departments, operating theatres, outpatient clinics, dedicated Day Hospitals and to a Tumor Board for the multidisciplinary management of these pathologies.
Among the latest interventions, that on a patient suffering from leiomyosarcoma of the renal vein, a rare tumor (less than 60 cases per year are recorded in Italy) originating from the smooth muscle cells of the vessel, successfully operated with the aid of the robot . “This intervention for the removal of a leiomyosarcoma of the renal vein with a minimally invasive robotic surgical technique represents an absolute first in Italy. We published the case in the International Journal of Surgery Case Reports – continues Pacelli -. To carry out a minimally invasive and targeted operation only on the renal vein, sparing the kidney, and also in consideration of the fact that the patient was obese, we therefore decided to remove this tumor with the ‘da Vinci’ robot.”
For Antonio de Belvis, Director of the UOC Clinical Pathways and Outcome Evaluation of the Gemelli, “the real challenge of the Path is to focus the care on the needs of the patient right from his access to the Gemelli Cancer Help Desk, available to all citizens assisted by the NHS. But Even the most appropriate clinical decisions, as defined by a multidisciplinary team, must be person-centered.”
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