File:Nibib_030207_105309_sarcoma.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
sarcoma
Sign in to saveAlso known as connective and soft tissue neoplasm, tumor of soft tissue and skeleton
tumori maligni del tessuto connettivo
Key facts
- Medical condition (new).name
- Sarcoma
- Medical condition (new).synonyms
- Sarcomas, sarcomata
- Medical condition (new).image
- Nibib 030207 105309 sarcoma.jpg
- Medical condition (new).caption
- Optical coherence tomography (OCT) image of a sarcoma
- Medical condition (new).field
- Oncology
- Medical condition (new).symptoms
- Bone pain, swelling, lumps or nodules, intestinal obstruction
- Medical condition (new).risks
- Exposure to ionizing radiation, alkylating agents, or vinyl chloride; Certain genetic disorders and mutations; young age
- Medical condition (new).diagnosis
- Biopsy
- Medical condition (new).treatment
- Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy
- Medical condition (new).prognosis
- 66.9% five-year survival rate for bone sarcomas, 64.5% five-year survival rate for soft-tissue sarcomas
- Medical condition (new).frequency
- 0.9% of annual cancer diagnoses
- Medical condition (new).deaths
- About 7,000 per year in the United States
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
218,562 papers- Ewing sarcoma and Ewing-like tumors.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2020
- Ewing Sarcoma, Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor, and Other Round Cell Sarcomas.Hematology/oncology clinics of North America · 2025
- Regorafenib for the Treatment of Sarcoma.Current treatment options in oncology · 2022
- Uterine sarcomas and rare uterine mesenchymal tumors with malignant potential. Diagnostic guidelines of the French Sarcoma Group and the Rare Gynecological Tumors Group.Gynecologic oncology · 2022
- Epigenetics of Cutaneous Sarcoma.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Kaposi's Sarcoma.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Sarcoma
- Commons category
- Sarcomas
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:1115
- health specialty
- oncology
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C9118
- ICD-9-CM
- 171
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Italiano
I sarcomi sono tumori maligni del tessuto connettivo, vale a dire del tessuto di sostegno dell'organismo.Pur essendo patologie relativamente rare e costituendo una minima parte di tutte le neoplasie, essi possono essere classificati in numerosi sottotipi differenti.Tra essi, meno del 5% sono sarcomi dell'apparato genito-urinario in occidente. La prognosi di queste neoplasie varia a seconda delle dimensioni del tumore primario, del grado istologico della malattia, e della posizione del corpo in cui essa si sviluppa, e infine della presenza di metastasi a distanza al momento della diagnosi. I sarcomi non derivano da alterazioni di corrispettivi tumori benigni ma nascono come tali, metastatizzano principalmente per via ematica, ma in alcuni casi presentano anche una diffusione linfatica dovuta alle interconnessioni tra i sistemi vascolare e linfatico.
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA