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sarcoma

[sahr-koh-muh] / sɑrˈkoʊ mə /


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A mass was found in Jake's nose and nasal cavity and he was diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

It also worked against a solid sarcoma tumor, an especially notable result because solid tumors have historically been much more difficult to treat with CAR-T therapy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

“Kaposi’s sarcoma occurs with other immunomodulators but in our view additional risk factors can be unfavorable if there are other treatment options that don’t have those risks,” analysts at UBS say in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Diamond had been diagnosed with an inoperable sarcoma, a rare kind of cancer, according to his family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2025

A woman shrieking for her husband and her two children was put ashore; it seemed the baby in her arms was afflicted with sarcoma, and was expelled the ship.

From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson

The researchers also intend to examine whether these same pathways could be targeted in other cancers where HOXD13 is elevated, such as certain glioblastomas, sarcomas, and osteosarcomas.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

Dana Farber colleague Suzanne George says Bertagnolli was known to “take the hardest cases” of sarcomas, a rare cancer of bone and soft tissue, offering hope to desperate patients.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 21, 2023

Mutations to the TP53 gene cause cancer cells to grow and spread and are most commonly associated with leukemia, breast cancer, bone cancer and soft tissue sarcomas.

From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2023

She eventually focused on a rare inherited syndrome that leads to colon cancer and also concentrated on sarcomas, which are soft-tissue cancers that often wrap themselves around blood vessels or vital organs.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 14, 2022

The great majority of meningeal tumours are primary sarcomas, and in about 25 per cent. of cases they are multiple.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles

Those chiefly met with are dermoids, fibromata, sarcomata and epitheliomata.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

Fascial sarcomata are often seen of immense size.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

Fifty-six of these were done for cancer, and the remainder for sarcomata, papillomata, etc.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

Mycosis fungoides approximates, clinically and histologically, granulomata and sarcomata.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

Of course, we know in the history of some tumors that growth is delayed and that in the sarcomata recurrence is often late.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz


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