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.
Organizations such as the Sarcoma Foundation of America (www.curesarcoma.org) are working to fund research towards a cure for sarcoma, while other patient-oriented organizations such as the Sarcoma Alliance (www.sarcomaalliance.com) are working to educate patients about the disease.
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Thursday, 11 January 2007 SAN BERNARDINO By Ernest Levister In the summer of1981 Kaposi's sarcoma a unique tumor was diagnosed in 26 previously healthy homosexual men in New York and Los Angels.
Background The four heterogeneous childhood cancers, neuroblastoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, rhabdomyosarcoma, and Ewingsarcoma present a similar histology of small round blue cell tumor and thus often leads to...
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