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sarcoma

[sahr-koh-muh] / sɑrˈkoʊ mə /


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Those same mice were also able to eliminate sarcoma tumors, cancers that develop in connective tissues such as fat, muscle, nerves, blood vessels, bone, and cartilage.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

The company reported the second Kaposi’s sarcoma case at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 30, 2026

Like Milla, Ainscough was diagnosed with an aggressive type of epithelioid sarcoma in her forearm.

From Salon Feb. 7, 2025

In October, after having trouble walking, Vázquez was admitted to White Memorial Hospital in Boyle Heights and diagnosed with terminal cancer, stage 4 sarcoma.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 3, 2024

In a more limited sense certain inflammations are called productive when multiple circumscribed new formations, as cancer, sarcoma, tubercle, and the like, arise in connection with the ordinary products of inflammation.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

"For example, adoptive T cell therapies are being used successfully to treat certain very rare sarcomas, so one could imagine using our insights to re-engineer the sensitivity of those receptors by tuning their activation threshold."

From Science Daily Dec. 18, 2025

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

Ms Coles, from Mansfield in Nottingham, now wants to raise awareness of sarcomas, which are tumours growing from connective tissue rather than organs.

From BBC Apr. 15, 2022

The small round-celled sarcomas are among the most malignant tumours of bone, growing with great rapidity, and at an early stage giving rise to secondary growths.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

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

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

The author called the disease sarcomata pigmentosum diffusum multiplex.

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

Schwimmer records a curious case of universal small sarcomata over the whole body of a teacher of the age of twenty-one, in the Hungarian lowlands.

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

Fallopian tubes or oviducts 767 are liable to inflammatory affections, tuberculosis, sarcomata, cancer, chorion-epithelioma and tubal pregnancy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various




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