Soft tissue sarcoma is metastatic if it has spread to areas in the body away from the location of the original tumor. Soft tissue sarcoma may spread through the bloodstream or lymphatic system to ...

A doctor may use an ultrasound scan as one of the first tests to diagnose and assess a soft tissue sarcoma. An ultrasound can help doctors determine the nature of the lump and plan the most effective ...

Soft tissue sarcomas are cancers that develop in your body’s soft tissues like muscle, fat, tendons, or cartilage. Your legs are the most common place they develop. The American Cancer Society ...

Surgery is the primary treatment for soft tissue sarcoma. It aims to remove cancerous tumors from tissues like muscle and fat. The type of surgery needed depends on the tumor’s characteristics, ...

Ravin Ratan, MD, MEd, MD Anderson, delves into how treatment paradigms and considerations differ between adult patients and pediatric patients who have soft tissue sarcomas. Ravin Ratan, MD, MEd, ...

Soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is a rare type of cancer that can quietly grow in the connective tissues of the body—such as fat, muscles, nerves, blood vessels, or beneath the skin. Although it represents ...

For the last three decades, breakthroughs have been sparse for soft tissue sarcomas, which are rare cancers that affect muscles, fat and other connective tissues. Today, a global team of researchers ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . BOSTON — Excisional biopsies of soft tissue sarcoma of the hand are associated with more positive margins and a ...

Novel biomarkers like GDF15 and OPN show promise in diagnosing and prognosticating uterine sarcoma, potentially enabling early identification and tailored therapy. Blood-based markers such as NLR and ...

Addition of the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab to standard of care for patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma of the limb significantly improved disease-free survival, according to the results ...

A recent analysis reveals that the incidence rates of soft tissue sarcomas - cancers in muscle, fat, blood vessels, nerves, and tendons - are lower in young U.S. active-duty military servicemen ...

Radiotherapy was associated with an 8.1-fold increased risk of developing a thoracic soft tissue sarcoma in one cohort (95% CI 1.1-60.4, P=0.0052) and 3.0-fold elevated risk in the other (95% CI 2.4-3 ...