0 a type of cancerous lump in the bones, muscles, or joints (= places where two bones are connected) --
It is selectively expressed in reactive stromal fibroblasts of epithelial cancers, granulation tissue of healing wounds, and malignant cells of bone and soft tissue sarcomas.
I know men who died at 35 of sarcoma caused by industrial activity, others who died of asbestosis and silicosis and miners who died of pneumoconiosis.
It was told of a 19 year-old boy, the son of a surgeon, who had advanced intra-abdominal sarcoma.
And maybe the chicken sarcoma agent was the right object of research just because one had hesitated in the beginning to accept it as a virus.
Such invasive malignancies transmitted with donor organs have arisen from a variety of organ sites including cervix, kidney, liver, lung, prostate cancer, brain tumors, and sarcomas.
The chicken sarcoma agent had made its appearance as a cancer agent, but it did not become connected to the field of the prevailing cancer research: human oncology.
Our palliative care team was asked to look after a 36-year-old lady with metastatic sarcoma as it was thought she had only weeks to live.
Since the diagnosis of primary breast sarcoma is extremely uncommon, there are no data from clinical trials to clearly support the use of adjuvant chemotherapy.
