RT Book, Section
A1 Livingston, J. Andrew
A1 Conley, Anthony
A1 Ravi, Vinod
A1 Patel, Shreyaskumar
A2 Kantarjian, Hagop M.
A2 Wolff, Robert A.
SR Print(0)
ID 1126745213
T1 Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcomas
T2 The MD Anderson Manual of Medical Oncology, 3e
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Medical
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071847940
LK hemonc.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126745213
RD 2024/04/19
AB Sarcomas  are  a  rare  and  heterogeneous  group  of  tumors  that  arise  from  mesenchymal  tissues.  According  to  the  estimates  of  the  American  Cancer  Society,  approximately  1.6  million  people  were  estimated  to  be  diagnosed  with  cancer  in  the  United  States  in  the  year  2013,  with  only  14,420,  or  just  less  than  1%  of  cases,  representing  sarcomas  (1);  11,410  of  these  cases  represent  new  soft  tissue  sarcomas  and  3,010  represent  bone  sarcomas,  with  4,390  and  1,440  deaths,  respectively,  resulting  from  these  tumors  (1).