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A sarcoma is a cancer of the bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.
The term comes from a Greek word meaning "fleshy growth." (Bone tumors osteosarcomas are also called sarcomas, but are in a separate category because they have different clinical and microscopic characteristics and are treated differently.)
Types of sarcoma:
- Soft tissue sarcoma, including
- Fibrosarcoma
- Malignant fibrous hystiocytoma
- Dermatofibrosarcoma
- Liposarcoma
- Rhabdomyosarcoma
- Leiomyosarcoma
- Hemangiosarcoma
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- Lymphangiosarcoma
- Synovial sarcoma
- Neurofibrosarcoma
- Extraskeletal chondrosarcoma
- Extraskeletal osteosarcoma
- Osteosarcoma
