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A type of malignant tumor of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.
Examples of sarcoma in a Sentence
Where pigment was present within the cells (sarcoma), the attraction-spheres were represented by quite clear unpigmented areas, sometimes with a centrosome in their midst.
Trambusti, curiously, finds confirmatory evidence of this in the division of cells in sarcoma.
The sarcomatous development may even completely outgrow the epithelial elements and so form and continue to grow as a pure sarcoma.
Budding of Rous sarcoma virus and vesicular stomatitis virus from localized lipid regions in the plasma membrane of chicken embryo fibroblasts.
Kaposi's sarcoma associated herpesvirus (KSHV) encodes a cyclin homologous to cellular D-type cyclins, which predominantly activates cdk6.
Almost all Ewing's sarcoma tumors have a change in their genetic makeup.
The next section is on treating soft tissue sarcoma.
The center offer the full range of regional oncology services and some national services, including sarcoma, prostate brachytherapy and ophthalmic oncology.
And on the further tests you may have if you have a sarcoma diagnosed.
People who carry this condition have a 1 in 10 chance of developing a sarcoma.
Therefore, in spite of the variable proportions of each component, our results confirm that the synovial sarcoma is of monoclonal origin.
It is sometimes also called " osteogenic sarcoma " which literally means a bone forming cancer.
This team aims to see at least 100 new patients with soft tissue sarcoma and 50 patients with primary bone sarcoma each year.
They have a fund raising program to support research into bone sarcoma.
Our results support the use of LSS with IORT and EBRT for extremity sarcoma and emphasize the importance of the surgical margin.
The figure below gives a summary of primary tumor site in a series of over 900 people diagnosed with Ewing 's sarcoma of bone.
Cryo-electron microscopy reveals conserved and divergent features of Gag packing in immature particles of Rous sarcoma virus and human immunodeficiency virus.
Radiotherapy is then delivered to the post-operative area, with a safety margin to remove any remaining sarcoma cells.
Subsequently, I was awarded an Imperial Cancer Research Trust fellowship to clone the translocation breakpoint causing Ewing 's Sarcoma.
Although owners must follow their local municipality's laws regarding rabies vaccinations, there is a high risk of sarcoma associated with this vaccine.
Sarcoma is cancer of supporting tissue such as bone, muscle, and blood vessels.
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), for example, is associated with lymphoma, the hepatitis viruses are associated with liver cancer, HIV is associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, and the bacteria Helicobacter pylori is associated with stomach cancer.
This cell type is called clear cell sarcoma of the kidney.
Patients with the favorable type of cell have a long-term survival rate of 93 percent, whereas those with anaplasia have a long-term survival rate of 43 percent and those with the sarcoma form have a survival rate of 36 percent.
A sarcoma is a cancerous (malignant) bone tumor.
A sarcoma is a type of malignant primary bone tumor.
Osteogenic sarcoma, or osteosarcoma, is the most common form of bone cancer, accounts for 6 percent of all instances of the disease, and for about 5 percent of all cancers that occur in children.
Ewing's sarcoma is the second most common form of childhood bone cancer.
Accounting for fewer than 5 percent of bone tumors in children, Ewing's sarcoma usually begins in the soft tissue (the marrow) inside bones of the leg, hips, ribs, and arms.
More than 80 percent of patients who have Ewing's sarcoma are white, and the disease most frequently affects children between the ages five and nine and young adults between ages 20 and 30.
Chest and abdominal CAT scans are used to determine whether Ewing's sarcoma has spread to the lungs, liver, or lymph nodes.
This technique is effective in identifying cells that are found in Ewing's sarcoma but are not present in other malignant tumors.
Radiation therapy is used often to treat Ewing's sarcoma.
Patients who have received treatment for Ewing's sarcoma are examined often-at gradually lengthening intervals-after completing therapy.
Two-thirds of all children diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma live for more than five years after the disease is detected.
More than 80 percent of patients whose Ewing's sarcoma is confined to a small area and surgically removed live, for at least five years.
More than 70 percent of patients live five years or more with a small Ewing's sarcoma that cannot be removed, but only three out of five patients with large, unremovable tumors survive that long.