Sarkom

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

• 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

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