Rare cancer patients can donate tumor samples to benefit future research on their disease using the new online service, Pattern.org. The National Leiomyosarcoma Foundation is joining this project to ...

For leiomyosarcoma of the skin, wide local excision and Mohs micrographic surgery may provide the best approach for treatment, according to researchers. In a retrospective review, 71 cases of primary ...

Uterine leiomyosarcoma is the most common subtype of uterine sarcoma. Increased awareness of this unique histology has allowed for the development of drugs that are specific to LMS and has begun to ...

The combination of doxorubicin and trabectedin (Yondelis) continued to show encouraging activity as first-line treatment of patients with metastatic or unresectable leiomyosarcoma (LMS), according to ...

February 13, 2007 — A simple new test can differentiate between gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) and leiomyosarcoma (LMS), 2 nearly identical cancers that require radically different courses of ...

Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) are 15% of adult sarcomas and remain seldom curable in metastatic phase. The TAM receptors and their ligands are overexpressed or activated in multiple malignancies, including LMS ...

After reading about breast cancer and aromatase inhibitors, a light went on for me about my leiomyosarcoma diagnosis. Rare cancers call for patients and doctors to think outside the box. When I was ...