sarcoma
Americannoun
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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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"Liberty's type of sarcoma was a particularly aggressive sarcoma and, after she was operated on, it had spread to her lungs in just six weeks," she remembered.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
Those same mice were also able to eliminate sarcoma tumors, cancers that develop in connective tissues such as fat, muscle, nerves, blood vessels, bone, and cartilage.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
“Kaposi’s sarcoma occurs with other immunomodulators but in our view additional risk factors can be unfavorable if there are other treatment options that don’t have those risks,” analysts at UBS say in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Diamond had been diagnosed with an inoperable sarcoma, a rare kind of cancer, according to his family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025
The relation of cancer to epithelial tumors is regarded as similar to that borne by sarcoma to tumors composed of connective tissues.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
"For example, adoptive T cell therapies are being used successfully to treat certain very rare sarcomas, so one could imagine using our insights to re-engineer the sensitivity of those receptors by tuning their activation threshold."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 18, 2025
I now specialise in treating testicular cancers and sarcomas.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
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
The great majority of meningeal tumours are primary sarcomas, and in about 25 per cent. of cases they are multiple.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
The author called the disease sarcomata pigmentosum diffusum multiplex.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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
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
Mycosis fungoides approximates, clinically and histologically, granulomata and sarcomata.
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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