A systematic review finds that diagnostic discordance in bone and soft tissue sarcoma may reduce survival, supporting expert second opinions.

“By dividing and conquering…we’re seeing responses in multiple different subtypes of sarcoma…and moving toward more of an individualized therapy that we try to design for every patient, where we take ...

Sarcomas are tumors that form in the body’s connective tissues such as bone, muscle and fat. They are rare and, because there are more than 150 types, patients benefit from seeing a sarcoma specialist ...

Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH, is a health writer. She has over a decade of experience as a registered nurse, practicing in a variety of fields, such as pediatrics, oncology, chronic pain, and public health ...

In part 3 of an interview, MD Anderson’s Ravin Ratan, MD, MEd, discusses neoadjuvant immune checkpoint blockade for 2 specific types of soft tissue sarcomas. Liposarcomas originate in fat cells and ...

Sarcomas include diverse mesenchymal neoplasms with widely varied prognosis, clinical behavior, and treatment. Owing to their rarity and histologic overlap, accurate diagnosis of sarcomas can be ...

Ewing sarcoma bone tumors have an onion-skin appearance on imaging scans. This happens because the tumors stimulate the growth of a membrane that surrounds the bones. Ewing sarcoma is a bone cancer ...

An artificial intelligence (AI)-based model accurately classified pediatric sarcomas using digital pathology images alone, according to results presented at the American Association for Cancer ...

Although not as essential as in other tumor types, genomic testing is increasingly playing a role in guiding treatment for ...

A recent study has answered the long-standing question of why improvements in survival outcomes for young people with cancerous soft tissue tumors have lagged behind those of their pediatric and older ...