sarcoma
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sarcomas,
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sarcomata
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noun
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sarcomas
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A malignant tumor originating from mesodermal tissue, such as fat, muscle, or bone.
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Origin of sarcoma
1650–60; < New Latin < Greek sárkōma fleshy growth. See sarc-, -oma
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It also worked against a solid sarcoma tumor, an especially notable result because solid tumors have historically been much more difficult to treat with CAR-T therapy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Essayli’s request notes that six children in the area have been diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
The company reported the second Kaposi’s sarcoma case at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
After 10 weeks in the hospital in September 2024, Isla was diagnosed with cancer when a sarcoma, that had already spread to her lungs and lymph nodes, was found on the lining of her heart.
From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2026
Carcinoma and sarcoma agree 177 in possessing all the pathological and cellular features of malignant new growths.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 2 "Camorra" to "Cape Colony" by Various
"We have previously proven the success of this method with brain tumours and sarcomas" reminds Dr. Esteller.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 26, 2024
Dana Farber colleague Suzanne George says Bertagnolli was known to “take the hardest cases” of sarcomas, a rare cancer of bone and soft tissue, offering hope to desperate patients.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 21, 2023
Mutations to the TP53 gene cause cancer cells to grow and spread and are most commonly associated with leukemia, breast cancer, bone cancer and soft tissue sarcomas.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2023
She eventually focused on a rare inherited syndrome that leads to colon cancer and also concentrated on sarcomas, which are soft-tissue cancers that often wrap themselves around blood vessels or vital organs.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022
Myeloma.—The myeloid tumour, which is sometimes classified with the sarcomas, contains as its chief elements large giant cells, like those normally present in the marrow.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
The author called the disease sarcomata pigmentosum diffusum multiplex.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Those chiefly met with are dermoids, fibromata, sarcomata and epitheliomata.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various
Fallopian tubes or oviducts 767 are liable to inflammatory affections, tuberculosis, sarcomata, cancer, chorion-epithelioma and tubal pregnancy.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
Schwimmer records a curious case of universal small sarcomata over the whole body of a teacher of the age of twenty-one, in the Hungarian lowlands.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Of course, we know in the history of some tumors that growth is delayed and that in the sarcomata recurrence is often late.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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