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What Exactly is Sarcoma?

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Sarcoma is a general class of rare cancers (15-20% in adolescents, 1% in adults) in which the cancer cells arise from or resemble normal cells in the body known as "connective tissues". Normal "connective tissues" include fat, muscle, blood vessels, deep skin tissues, nerves, bones, and cartilage. Cancers of cells which resemble any of these normal tissues are known as "sarcomas".

Sarcomas are sub-classified based upon the specific type of cell that makes up the cancer. Here is a list that I got from Elizabeth Munroz who heads up a blog called Survived 2B Alive. Many of the sarcomas that exist I had no idea about myself:

Adamantinoma of Long Bones

Adenosarcoma of The Uterus

Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma ASPS

Angiosarcoma /High Grade /Low Grade / of the Breast: are malignant tumors that resemble blood or lymphatic vessels.

Askin's Tumor (PNET of The Chest Wall)

Bone Dysplasia With Medullary Fibrosarcoma

Carcinosarcoma

Cerebral Sarcoma /Familial Cerebral Sarcomas

Chondroblastoma

Chondrocarcinoma

Chondromyxoid Fibroma

Chondrosarcoma (Conventional): is a tumor of cells which form cartilage.

Clear Cell Chondrosarcoma

Clear Cell Sarcoma (Malignant Melanoma of Soft Parts / MMSP)

Clear Cell Sarcoma of the Kidney (CCSK)

Conventional Intramedullary Osteosarcoma

Cystosarcoma Phyllodes /Phyllodes Tumor Of The Breast

Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma

Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans / DFSP / Giant Cell Fibroblastoma / Familial Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans (Subtype)

Desmoid Tumor: is not strictly a sarcoma since it is not technically a malignancy. However, since it has risk of coming back, it is a tumor which generally should be managed by a team skilled in sarcoma management.

Desmoplastic Fibroma

Desmoplastic Small Round Cell Tumor

Diaphyseal Medullary Stenosis with Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma

Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma

Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma

Epithelioid Hemangioma

Epithelioid Sarcoma

Ewing’s Sarcoma of Bone

Ewings Sarcoma/Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor (PNET): It is a class of diseases which arise from very primitive cells in the body. Although this is usually thought of as a bone tumor, Ewing Sarcoma is increasingly recognized to arise in soft tissues in the body as well.

Extraosseous Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma

Extraosseous Myxoid Chondrosarcoma

Extraosseous Osteosarcoma

Extraskeletal Myxoid Chondrosarcoma

Fibrosarcoma: is cancer of the fibroblast-type cells in the body which form scars and do other important connective functions.

GIST / Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors / Gastrointestinal Stromal Sarcoma: also known as GI Stromal Sarcoma is an increasingly recognized diagnosis of connective tissue cancerous cells which support the GI tract.

Gliosarcoma / Sarcomatous Glioblastoma

Granulocytic Sarcoma in Bone

Hemangioendothelioma

Hemangiopericytoma

High-Grade Surface Osteosarcoma

Histiocytoma

Hodgkin Lymphoma of Bone

Intimal Sarcoma of the Pulmonary Artery

Intra-Articular Synovial Sarcoma

Intracortical Osteosarcoma

Intraosseous Well-Differentiated Osteosarcoma

Juxtacortical Chondrosarcoma

Kaposi Sarcoma / (Multiple Idiopathic Pigmented Hemangiosarcoma) Non AIDS & AIDS Related

Leiomyosarcoma: are malignant tumors which develop from smooth muscle tissue. (Smooth muscle is the type of muscle over which your brain does not have conscious control like the muscle fibers in the uterus or in the walls of blood vessels.) They can arise anywhere in the body but the uterus or gastrointestinal tract are two relatively common locations for leiomyosarcoma.

Li Fraumeni Syndrome / Sarcoma Family Syndrome of Li and Fraumeni

Liposarcoma: are malignant tumors which develop from fat tissue. They can develop anywhere in the body, but they most often grow in the retroperitoneum (tissue at the back of the abdominal cavity).

Lymphangiosarcoma

Malignant Fibrous Hystiocytoma (MFH)

Malignant Mesenchymoma of Bone

Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumours (MPNST) Malignant Schwannoma: is a cancer of the cells that surround nerves -- it is also called neurofibrosarcoma.

Malignant Teratocarcinosarcoma (Sinonasal & Paranasal)

Mast-Cell Sarcoma

Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma

Multifocal Osteosarcoma

Multiple Myeloma

Myeloid Sarcoma

Myxoid Chondrosarcoma

Myxoid Liposarcoma

Neurofibroma of Bone

Non Hodgkin Lymphoma

Oslam Syndrome

Osteoblastoma

Osteoid Osteoma

Osteosarcoma: is a tumor of cells which form bone.

Paget’s Disease

Parosteal Osteochondrosarcoma

Parosteal Osteosarcoma

Periosteal Chondrosarcoma

Periosteal Osteosarcoma

Pigmented Dermatofibrosarcoma Protuberans / Bednar’s Tumor

Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis

Pleomorphic Rhabdomyosarcoma

Plexosarcoma / Gastrointestinal Autonomic Nerve Tumor

Post - Paget’s Sarcoma

Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor of Bone

Retroperitoneal Liposarcoma

Rhabdomyosarcoma 1 / Rhabdomyosarcoma Embryonal 1

Rhabdomyosarcoma 2 / Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma

Sarcoma Botryoides

Schwannoma of Bone

Sinus Histiocytosis With Massive Lymphadenopathy

Small Cell Osteosarcoma

Solitary Myeloma (Plasmacytoma)

Synovial Chondrosarcoma

Synovial Sarcomas / Synovial Cell Sarcoma: is a malignant tumor made up of cells which resemble the cells in joints. ("Synovial cells" line the joints.) However, synovial sarcoma does not necessarily arise in any joint, and the name is probably a misnomer, since the cancer cells are probably quite different from normal joint cells. Synovial sarcomas can arise in any location in the body, and it often appears in young adults.

Telangectatic Osteosarcoma

Uterine Sarcoma

Me and Mom 6/10/06

My mother, Lucia, was diagnosed with Synovial Sarcoma in early 2004 and lost the battle on October 12th, 2006. My mom put up a long and hard battle but even the most aggressive treatments including a below the knee amputation on her left leg, numerous rounds of chemotherapy (which all required hospitalizations due to the toxic dosages), radiation and clinical trials--it wasn't enough. There is still a lot of information researchers need to know about this form of cancer and this is why I'm riding--for those who are fighting this cancer and for my mother.