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| | Soft Tissue Sarcomas |
 | | Soft tissue sarcomas are a diverse group of cancers that collectively comprise 15% of all "skin" and subcutaneous cancers in the dog and 7% in the cat.' The annual incidence of soft tissue sarcomas in the dog is about 35 per 100,000 dogs at risk and 17 per 100,000 cats at risk. | | | Soft tissue sarcomas tend to have several important common features with regard to their biologic behavior. | | | The synovial sarcoma tends to be invasive into tendons, muscles, and bone. |
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http://www.maxshouse.com/soft_tissue_sarcomas.htm
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| | Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Questions and Answers, Cancer Facts 6.12 |
| | Treatment options for soft tissue sarcomas include surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. | | | High-grade sarcomas are more likely to spread to other parts of the body. | | | About 50 percent occur in the extremities (the arms, legs, hands, or feet), 40 percent occur in the trunk (chest, back, hips, shoulders, and abdomen), and 10 percent occur in the head and neck. |
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http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/6_12.htm
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| | Sloan-Kettering - Soft-Tissue Sarcoma |
| | Although small sarcomas can be treated with surgery alone, the majority of sarcomas are routinely managed by a combination of surgery and radiation therapy. | | | Memorial Sloan-Kettering doctors generate more than half of the world's research publications on soft-tissue sarcomas and have the most extensive experience with these tumors of any medical group. | | | In this section you can find information about our expertise in treating patients with soft-tissue sarcomas, our services, and our research. |
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http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/435.cfm
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| | Diagnose-Me: Condition: Soft Tissue Sarcoma |
| | When a sarcoma is aggressive looking, and the surgeon has completed his or her task of removing as much of it as possible, adding radiation will significantly reduce the chances of the cancer coming back. | | | If a sarcoma is found, staging tests are performed to find out if the cancer has spread and, if so, to what extent. | | | If their cancer is treated with radiation, they have a very high chance of developing a new cancer in the part of the body that received the radiation. |
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http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C439055.html
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| | www.patientcenters.com -- Childhood Cancer Center -- Soft Tissue Sarcomas |
| | Treatment for non-rhabdomyosarcoma soft tissue sarcomas is usually surgery and sometimes radiation therapy. | | | Soft tissue sarcomas can arise at any point within this system. | | | During surgery the doctor removes as much of the tumor as he can and then samples surrounding tissues which are later examined by a pathologist. |
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http://www.patientcenters.com/childcancer/news/soft_sarcomas.html
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| | Soft Tissue Tumors |
| | The objective of this study was to compare the presentation, management, and outcome of patients with soft tissue sarcomas of the upper extremity and the lower extremity. | | | CONCLUSION: We conclude that surgery is effective in treating selected patients with sarcoma metastatic to the brain and that patients with metastasis from ASPS may have a relatively good prognosis if they are surgically treated. | | | Multifactorial analysis of the survival of patients with distant metastasis arising from primary extremity sarcoma. |
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http://www.thedoctorsdoctor.com/diseases/soft_tissue_tumors.htm
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| | Soft Tissue Sarcoma: An Explanation |
| | Most commonly, bone sarcoma patients present with a pain in the area of the lesion. | | | A thoracic surgeon performs surgery for sarcomas inside the chest or lungs (usually metastatic tumors). | | | Throughout the many steps in the treatment plan you will encounter different types of doctors to help manage your care such as an orthopedic surgical oncologist, surgical oncologist, medical oncologist and a radiation oncologist. |
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http://www.cancer.med.umich.edu/learn/sarexplanation.htm
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| | Advanced, precise radiation may boost limb-sparing therapy for sarcoma : Onlypunjab.com Team- Entertainment News, Movie ... |
| | Sarcomas were removed by USC orthopaedic surgeon Lawrence Menendez, M.D. Eight of the patients had chemotherapy before the surgery, while 10 received traditional external beam radiation therapy before the surgery and one received the external beam radiation therapy after the surgery. | | | Brachytherapy also means less chance of radiation burning the skin or hurting surrounding healthy tissues in the body. | | | Brachytherapy, the administration of radiation therapy locally through radioactive seeds, holds promise as part of a limb-sparing treatment program for patients with soft-tissue sarcomas, according to researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. |
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http://www.onlypunjab.com/real/fullstory1004-newsID-726.html
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| | Soft Tissue Sarcoma Resource Directory - CancerIndex |
| | Childhood Soft Tissue Sarcomas (USA) Part of a SEER report on cancer incidence and survival among children and adolescents; 1975-1995. | | | Sarcoma (Journal) a peer reviewed international journal publishing papers covering all aspects of connective tissue oncology research. | | | Sarcoma.Net An educational site for sarcoma patients including sarcoma facts, information about clinical trials and links. |
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http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks3u.htm
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| | Medical Oncology: A Comprehensive Review - Soft-Tissue and Bone Sarcomas |
| | As in the case of soft-tissue sarcomas, arteriograms are rarely necessary for surgical planning for bone sarcomas. | | | Kinsella TJ, Glatstein EJ: Clinical experience with intravenous radiosensitizers in unresectable sarcomas. | | | The system is based on the fact that bone sarcomas, regardless of their histologic type, behave similarly according to grade (G), location (T), and lymph-node involvement or distant metastases (M). |
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http://www.cancernetwork.com/textbook/morev33.htm
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| | Merck Vet. Edition - Soft-tissue Sarcomas |
| | The best, if not only, opportunity to completely remove a spindle-cell sarcoma is during the first surgical attempt; those that recur have a greater potential for metastasis, and the time between recurrence often shortens with each subsequent attempt at excision. | | | Excision is the treatment of choice; wide excision or amputation should be performed when anatomically feasible because spindle-cell sarcomas often infiltrate along fascial planes, making it difficult to determine from gross examination the peripheral margins of the tumor. | | | As a group, sarcomas are widely recognized, yet poorly characterized neoplasms. |
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http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/htm/bc/72217.htm
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| | High risk of second cancers in survivors of childhood soft tissue sarcomas |
| | The study appears in the June 1, 2005 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, and indicates children treated with combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy, in particular, had greater risks of developing a new malignancy. | | | Children initially treated with radiation or those with radiation combined with chemotherapy had substantially higher risks of second cancers than those treated with surgery alone. | | | Their goal was to quantify the risk of developing a second malignancy in soft tissue sarcoma patients by second cancer site, initial therapy, histologic type of the primary sarcoma, age at primary cancer diagnosis, and gender. |
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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=23380&nfid=mnf
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| | Soft Tissue Sarcomas |
| | Topics covered include epidemiology, inherited syndromes, biopsy and surgical techniques, external beam irradiation, brachytherapy, intraoperative radiation therapy, neoadjuvant therapy, adjuvant therapy, regional perfusion, pain syndromes, and rehabilitation. | | | It discusses diagnosis and staging, surgical approaches, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, pediatric sarcomas, and much more. | | | Part of the acclaimed ACS Atlas of Clinical Oncology series, this book offers an expert overview of soft tissue sarcomas. |
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http://www.harcourt-international.com/catalogue/title.cfm?ISBN=155009128X
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| | National Cancer Institute - Childhood Soft Tissue Sarcoma Treatment |
| | It begins in muscles around the bone and can be found anywhere in the body. | | | Soft tissue sarcoma is more likely to develop in people who have specific genetic conditions, such as Li-Fraumeni syndrome, who have previously received radiation therapy, or who have the Epstein-Barr virus with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). | | | Soft tissue sarcomas may develop in any part of the body, but in young patients they are most commonly found in the trunk, arms, and legs. |
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http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/pdq/treatment/child-soft-tissue-sarcoma/patient
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| | ACS :: Soft Tissue Sarcomas |
| | This book offers an expert overview of soft tissue sarcomas, discussing diagnosis and staging, surgical approaches, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and much more. | | | Stephan A. Vorburger, MD, Kelly K. Hunt, MD Chapter 28 | | | Primary Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the Central Nervous System |
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http://www.cancer.org/docroot/pub/content/pub_1_1_soft_tissue_sarcomas.asp?bookview=toc
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| | Soft Tissue Sarcomas |
| | Soft Tissue Sarcomas (STS) are a group of cancers that originate from the basic elements of body tissues like: muscle, vessels, fatty tissue, fibrous tissue, etc. They may involve any part or any organ of the body. | | | The incidence of STS is higher among persons with certain heritable cancers like Retinoblastoma, etc. Sarcomas are more common in New Zealand than in the United States. | | | The actual cause of these cancers is unknown; however, some environmental factors play a role in their development. |
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http://www.tirgan.com/soft.htm
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| | MedlinePlus: Soft Tissue Sarcoma |
| | Childhood Soft Tissue Sarcoma (PDQ): Treatment (National Cancer Institute) | | | The primary NIH organization for research on Soft Tissue Sarcoma is the National Cancer Institute | | | Adult Soft Tissue Sarcoma (PDQ): Treatment (National Cancer Institute) |
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/softtissuesarcoma.html
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| | Soft Tissue Sarcomas |
| | These are cancers of the supporting tissues of the body - the muscles, nerves, fat, blood vessels and deep skin tissues. | | | If you have, or suspect you may have, a health problem you should consult your doctor. | | | CancerHelp UK is not designed to provide medical advice or professional services and is intended to be for educational use only. |
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http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help?page=4554
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| | Index Chapter 1 |
| | STAGE I (localized low grade soft tissue sarcomas) | | | STAGE II-III (high grade localized soft tissue sarcomas) | | | STAGE IVA (local regional soft tissue sarcoma with regional lymph node metastases) |
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http://telescan.nki.nl/start/chapt-01/chapt-01.html
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