Rick Sasso, MD

When you hear about someone having cancer, you rarely hear about cancer of the spine – spinal tumors.  The good news is - that is because it is rare!  When cancer metastasizes to the skeletal system a common location for this is the spine. 

The most common cancer in women that metastasizes to the spine is breast cancer, and in men it is either prostate or lung cancer.

To learn more about spinal tumors, click here.

Recently, I co-authored a chapter in a textbook entitled, “Metastatic Spinal Tumors”.  This chapter outlines the diagnosis and treatment of these tumors.  To read more, link here.