Sarcoma

This is a disease that effects millions of individuals each year, causing their families to suffer as well. There are hundreds of forms of this sickness. It does not attack any specific gender, race, status, body type, age, etc. of person, therefore no one is safe from the illness. This very frightening and treacherous disease is known as cancer. I have chosen cancer for my final project due it hitting very close to home. I have lost many family members to this disease over my lifetime. Even…

As a Canadian you are almost guaranteed to know who Terry Fox is. Terry Fox was a normal Canadian man who was diagnosed with osteogenic sarcoma, a form of bone cancer, at the age of 18. Terry’s leg was amputated, and he underwent chemotherapy afterward, gave him a 50% chance of survival. Two years before, before the discovery of chemotherapy, Terry would only have had a 15% chance at survival; this inspired him to want to raise money for cancer research. On April 12, 1980, after undergoing…

Eribulin mesylate (Halaven, Eisai), an FDA approved drug for use in late stage breast cancer is now concurrently indicated for the treatment of soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) that is inoperable or has metastasized known as liposarcoma. Eribulin mesylate can now be used in patients who have previously received anthracycline chemotherapy as treatment for liposarcoma. Liposarcoma is difficult to treat; most patients tend to have resection of malignant cells or curative surgery. Tumor cells are removed…

control and can invade nearby tissues. Cancer cells can also spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems. Several main types of cancer include carcinoma (cancer that begins in the skin/tissues that line internal organs), sarcoma (bone, cartilage, fat, muscles, blood vessels, and other connective tissues), Leukemia (blood-forming tissues like the bone marrow), lymphoma and multiple myeloma (cells of the immune system) and central nervous system cancer (tissues of the…

the lungs and skull. It is primary called bone cancer, and when it is spread to another site it is called secondary or metastatic bone cancer. There are several types of bone cancer which includes. Chondrosarcoma, cancer of the cartilage. Ewing Sarcoma tumors that develop in the cavity of the legs and arm bones. Fibrosarcoma and malignant fibrous histiocytoma cancers that develop in soft tissue and tendons and ligaments bones of legs and arms. Lymphoma of the bone,…

The First Therapeutic Vaccine VG-1000 is especially beneficial in patients with carcinoma or the typical types of cancer such as prostate, lung and breast cancer. The vaccine is also helpful in treating melanomas, sarcomas and leukemia. However, patients who underwent radiation and chemotherapy have slow progress when using VG-1000 since they have a depressed immune system compared to those who don’t have either of the two treatments. Hence VG-1000 is apparently should be a fist-line treatment…

is when the cyst is on or pressing on the spinal cord. But since you have to have this removed doctors have found a way to do this with radiation even though it is not good for the body you have to get rid of the lesion. This radiation does cause sarcomas every time radiation is…

These Applicators in the treatment of areas with complex anatomical location of the tumor bed such as abdominal tumors or skin sarcomas faced with fields matching problems, because the size of cylindrical applicators with circular section aren’t adequate for covering large areas. To resolve this problem and covered entire areas usually used multiple circular fields, but the circular…

increased expression of P53 and bcl-2, not shown by benign glomus tumor cells [6]. On the contrary, de novo glomangiosarcoma is more difficult to diagnose because of the absence of benign glomus tumor histology, and can be easily confused with other sarcomas. Immunostaining is helpful in the diagnosis as tumor cells are typically positive for smooth muscle actin and vimentin but negative for epithelial, vascular and neural markers (i.e. desmin, cytokeratin, S100, chromogranin, and neurofilament)…

Cancer Immunotherapy: using immune based therapies to enhance the immune system to fight cancer cells. Introduction Cancer immunotherapy involves using components of the immune system to fight cancer cells. The immune system is very effective in getting rid of pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. The concept of unleashing the body’s ability to defend itself against cancer cells has long been a scientific discussion (Nathanson L. 1976). Over the last 10 years, scientists have synthesized drugs…