Soft tissue sarcoma (STS) is a type of cancer that develops in soft tissues, such as deep skin tissues, muscle, fat, and blood vessels. STS can occur in any part of the body, including the abdomen.

A doctor may use an ultrasound scan as one of the first tests to diagnose and assess a soft tissue sarcoma. An ultrasound can help doctors determine the nature of the lump and plan the most effective ...

Soft tissue sarcomas are rare solid tumors that are being increasingly classified and treated by subtype. Approximately 12,020 people will be diagnosed with a soft tissue sarcoma in the United States ...

Investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have discovered that cancerous tumors called soft-tissue sarcomas produce a protein that switches immune cells from tumor-attacking to tumor-promoting. The study ...

An Era of Advances in Systemic Therapies for Advanced Thyroid Cancer Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) of the extremity and trunk are heterogeneous and rare tumors that require coordinated multidisciplinary ...

Soft tissue sarcomas rarely metastasize to the heart, with cardiac involvement seen in less than 0.03% of cases. Metastatic heart disease presents diagnostic challenges due to nonspecific symptoms, ...

A cohort of 253 isolated LR resections from 3211 primary STS resections enabled evaluation of post-recurrence prognosticators with median 5.3-year follow-up and 83 disease-specific deaths. Higher LR ...

A novel intratumoral treatment was administered to the first patient in a phase 3 trial for certain patients with metastatic soft tissue sarcoma. A phase 3 trial for patients with metastatic soft ...

Although relatively rare, soft tissue sarcoma after breast cancer treatment was linked most strongly to treatment with radiation, according to data from two large U.S. cohorts of breast cancer ...

Clinical and Genomic Features of HER2 Exon 20 Insertion Mutations and Characterization of HER2 Expression by Immunohistochemistry in East Asian Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer A single-institutional ...

Synovial sarcoma is a high-grade soft tissue sarcoma that primarily affects adolescents and young adults (AYA). While localized tumors in the limbs may be treatable through surgery, metastatic ...

Investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have discovered that cancerous tumors called soft-tissue sarcomas produce a protein that switches immune cells from tumor-attacking to tumor-promoting. The study ...