What is Sarcoma? | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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- George Demetri, M.D., Director of the Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, provides an easy-to-follow introduction to the complexities of sarcoma definition, research, and treatment.
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Many people ask, “What is sarcoma?” if someone in the family is stricken with the disease. Now first and foremost, sarcoma is not one disease-there are hundreds of different diseases that are grouped under the general term ‘sarcoma.’ Sarcoma refers to growth of cells whose normal function would be to hold the body together. These are called connective tissue cells, because they're connecting different parts of the body. And generally speaking, these include cells like muscle, bone, nerves, other things that don't really have a function in the body, other than to hold it together. Any one of these different kinds of cells-fat cells, muscle cells, different types of nerve or nerve-protecting cells, blood vessel cells-if they turn cancerous, that type of a cancer is known as a sarcoma.
Now importantly, the different types of sarcomas have more complicated names. So, a muscle sarcoma could be either a rhabdomyosarcoma or a leiomyosarcoma. These polysyllabic nightmares are difficult for patients to understand. They’re very difficult for physicians to understand, unless they are sarcoma experts. And frankly, it’s been very confusing in the field of medical research, and part of what our team is trying to do with expert pathologists, like Chris Fletcher at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is to try to make these different sarcomas actually different diseases that we treat in different ways.
The analogy is simple: if you get an infection, you try to figure out what bug is causing the infection, and then the doctors can treat that specific bug. It’s exactly the same with sarcomas. If a patient or a loved one gets a sarcoma, you want to be sure you're getting the exact right type of treatment for the exact right type of sarcoma. Part of what our team here is focused on is understanding all the different types of sarcomas in as much detail as we can, right down to the level of the DNA, because sometimes (as in the case with a sarcoma known as gastrointestinal stromal tumor or GIST), the DNA and the mutations of the DNA in the tumor can give us clues as to important new molecular treatments that may be developed to fight that type of sarcoma.
When a patient or a family member is diagnosed with sarcoma, there are many decisions to be made very quickly. The national guidelines from the National Comprehensive Cancer Center Network strongly encourage patients to seek an expert opinion at a sarcoma center or a center there where the physicians will work as a team and have extensive experience in the management of patients with multiple types of sarcomas.
The Dana-Farber Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center, part of the Dana-Farber Harvard Cancer, has extensive experience in our hospitals, and we have an extensive team of multi-disciplinary specialists, including medical oncology, surgical oncology, orthopedic oncology, pathology, reconstructive surgery, and many, many other specialties that work together in a coordinated team to help provide the best care for patients, whether it be using standard and conventional measures that local physicians could also deliver, or whether it be in the cutting-edge new research studies that are available at our center. We encourage patients to use this expertise here, and we work closely with other centers worldwide, so that we can advance the care and the outcomes for patients with sarcoma, so they can be the best they can possibly be.
rest in peace technoblade and all people who cancer has taken. thank you to all the doctors/nurses who treat the patients, and the scientists researching a cure, and everyone who donates. to anyone who's lost a loved one to cancer: sorry for your loss.
this really hurts hope if anyone see this that he can beat it stay strong
Technoblade never dies
my dad had sarcoma and bone cancer, but the sarcoma was in his chest. he sadly passed away on his birthday last year, so im praying and sending every luck i can give for you w any family members who is diagnosed with this disease.
Thanks for explaining my grandmother was diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma I was really confused this was June 2019 now it’s September 2019 she’s loosing more and more weight and barely want to get out the bed :( please pray for her thank you 🙏🏾
My daughter had a small bump when she was 13. Her pediatrician said to watch it. At 21 my daughters bump was the size of a baseball. Fortunately, we had access to the UW Madison, Dr. John Heiner, who had experience with this rare sarcoma. The sarcoma was removed with clear margins. The hole in her leg was replaced by a muscle in her stomach. She is now over40.
Where was that bump located and really it took 8 years to become cancerous?
glad she made it
Thank you for this video, finally someone explaining it to me!! My husbands Surgeon didnt even clearly tell me what Sarcoma Cancer was. Sadly he passed away 5months after he was diagnosed :( RIP JON xxx
Sorry for your loss, Thank you for being strong enough to tell us about it.
God Bless you and Jon 🙏🏼
techno never dies
My son just passed rem rhabdomyosarcoma!!! Sept 28 2021!!! Head and neck in his sinus cavity!!! He went to a childrens hospital!!! And my son is gone!!!! He was doing so well he was to do 10 months of chemo and 6 weeks of proton radiation!! He only made it to 4.5 months of chemo and awoke one am never walking or talking again!!! Three weeks in hospital n Al diapers in a ventilator a week!! Ended up getting off but still never walking or talking again!!! They never knew only was said tht he had brain swelling!!!! Until the day he had to go back on a ventilator and went into cardiac arrest tht evening at 759pm!!! I demanded an autopsy to find out uniques cancer had spread to his brain and spinal fluid! But all tests showed negative of no spread!!
pray for jake
Thank you so much for posting, very clear and in layman's language.
Rest in peace Techno! 😭
I also came here to learn about sarcoma for this reason :(
Sharing is very interesting, scholar and intellectual Thank you very much
*What is Sarcoma?*
George Demetri, M.D., Director of the Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, provides an easy-to-follow introduction to the complexities of sarcoma definition, research, and treatment.
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Three years ago i had a lipoma in my stomach. Now I am suffering from liposarcuma. It is the right inguinal femoral region and size is 69mm*82mm. Is it possible to remove permanently? There are two more in my diffferent parts of my body but in small size. I am going under a operation for this. What can I do after operation if more one i can notice. Is there is any treatment without operation in the initially?
Thanks dr for the knowledge😇
Here with synovial sarcoma that doesn’t fit into any subtype. At least 3 In my spinal cord and another 1 near my brain. Just found out chemotherapy isn’t working 🙃🙃🙃
did you get any treatment?
hope you are okay...
My granddaughter was diagnosed with Sarcoma cancer today and she is only 3 years old she had an emergency surgery last week
my mom has sarcoma in thigh it's has become in critical stage it's burst n I live in pakistan doctor couldn't do operation now it's dangerous or not
didnt really get much on kaposis
RIP Antonio Lovell Campbell 🙏
Is sarcoma deadly ???
Samantha Mondragon yep. Very.
Jake you will live!
Techno support
Agreed man
Rip...
sarcoma cancer ka treatment kaha par hota hai pura clear hone ke liye kitna kharch aata hai
You can go to any oncologist
Pray for my mum
Who else is here for Jake? 😔
me
me
me
same 😔
me😔😞
Poor Daniel Litch
Rest in peace Technoblade
Technoblade Never Dies
Great doctors always have large ears... just my observation.
I have just been diagnosed with pleomorphic liposarcoma in my ankle. I previously had angiosarcoma removef from my breast a year ago. I’m really scared of this moving around my body. 🤦🏽♀️ I’m due to have 25 radiation treatments on my ankle. Then surgery. To remove it. I’m unable to wear shoes or socks. Just flip flops right now. 😡
how many radiation for that angiosarcoma? unfortunelly, i have one in my thigh :((
Technoblade… rip…
Right, even docs. they don't know d cures at first.. Pray at all times With God
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Rest in peace Technoblade
Rest in peace Technoblade