A sarcoma is a cancer of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue. When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ... Grays illustration of a human femur, a typically recognized bone. ... Cartilage is a type of dense connective tissue. ... Look up fat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A top-down view of skeletal muscle Muscle is a contractile form of tissue. ... The arterial system The blood vessels are part of the circulatory system and function to transport blood throughout the body. ... Connective tissue is any type of biological tissue with an extensive extracellular matrix and often serves to support, bind together, and protect organs. ...

The term comes from a Greek word meaning "fleshy growth." Bone tumors (osteosarcomas) are also called sarcomas, but are in a separate category because they have different clinical and microscopic characteristics and are treated differently. Osteogenic sarcoma or osteosarcoma is one of the most common childhood bone cancers. See the article about cancer for the main article about malignant tumors. ... Osteosarcoma is a common primary bone cancer. ...

Organizations such as the Sarcoma Foundation of America are working to fund research towards a cure for sarcoma, while other patient-oriented organizations such as the Sarcoma Alliance are working to educate patients about the disease, and still others like the Rare Cancer Alliance are working to give patients online support. An organization (U.S. spelling) or organisation (U.K. spelling) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. ... In semantics, the patient is the passive part of a process. ...

The most famous victim of this disease is Terry Fox who was required to have a leg amputated as treatment. He subsesquently began heroic fundraising efforts towards medical research which enabled advances that dramatically improved the survivability of the ailment. Terry Fox on his run Terry Stanley Terry Fox, CC (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer treatment activist. ... Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma or surgery. ...

External links

• Sarcoma Support Forums
• Sarcoma Foundation of America
• Sarcoma Alliance

Types of sarcoma

• Soft tissue sarcoma, including
  • Angiosarcoma
  • Dermatofibrosarcoma
  • Desmoid Tumor
  • Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
  • Extraskeletal chondrosarcoma
  • Extraskeletal osteosarcoma
  • Fibrosarcoma
  • Hemangioperitcytoma
  • Hemangiosarcoma
  • Kaposi's sarcoma
  • Leiomyosarcoma
  • Liposarcoma
  • Lymphangiosarcoma
  • Malignant fibrous hystiocytoma
  • Neurofibrosarcoma
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Synovial sarcoma
• Chondrosarcoma
• Askin's Tumor
• Ewing's - PNET
• Malignant Hemangioendothelioma
• Malignant Schwannoma
• Osteosarcoma
• Chondrosarcoma