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Also known as connective and soft tissue neoplasm, tumor of soft tissue and skeleton
A sarcoma is a rare type of cancer that arises from cells of mesenchymal origin. Originating from mesenchymal cells means that sarcomas are cancers of connective tissues such as bone, cartilage, muscle, fat, or vascular tissues.
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
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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
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Kaposi's Sarcoma.jpg
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- 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
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Article · 中文
肉瘤（英語：sarcoma；希臘語：σάρκωμα、sárkomma，源于sárka，意為肉、软组织，词尾~om指肿瘤）或稱惡性肉瘤，是一种恶性肿瘤，组织来源为支持组织—间胚叶组织（准确一点，来自中胚层）。 与上皮组织恶性肿瘤（carcinoma，癌）和血液及骨髓的恶性肿瘤（血癌和）一道，肉瘤属于恶性肿瘤病变。 肉瘤的发生机率比癌症低，恶性肿瘤病变裡約有1%是肉瘤。 肉瘤的来源为间充质支持组织—间胚叶组织（结缔组织、骨骼、软骨、肌肉和脂肪组织）。
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