sarcoma
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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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Essayli’s request notes that six children in the area have been diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 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
Paul died from a fast and aggressive sarcoma cancer.
From BBC ● May 18, 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
Of the solid tumours the glioma and the sarcoma are the most common, and when they originate in the pigmented structures of the globe they present the characters of melanotic growths.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
"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 Thomson, Alexis
Mycosis fungoides approximates, clinically and histologically, granulomata and sarcomata.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
Fascial sarcomata are often seen of immense size.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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
Fifty-six of these were done for cancer, and the remainder for sarcomata, papillomata, etc.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
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
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