what is ewing's sarcoma exactly?

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Answer 1

Cance of soft tissue: It is an aggressive/high grade cancer of the soft tissues usually arising in the bones.

Answer 2

Rare cancer: It is a rare cancer which usually occurs in teenagers and young adults. It more commonly occurs in bones such as the thigh bone and pelvis, but can occur in other bones and soft tissues. The usual treatment is chemotherapy and surgical removal of tumor. Sometimes radiation is used in addition to or even instead of surgery if surgery would not remove entire tumor or would be to debilitating.

Answer 3

Rare bone tumor: Ewing's sarcoma is an unommon primary tumor of bone found in younger patients. It represents a malignant small, round, cell tumor where cancer cells are found primarily in bone or on occasion in soft tissue. .It isi now classified as a primitive neuroectodermal tumor, Most cases are the result of a translocation between chromosomes 11 and 22 Treatment includes chemo. RT and surgery

Answer 4

Usually red or black: Kaposi is full of blood so should be red to black in color.

Answer 5

Kaposi : Yes it can depending on how much blood is inside it. Also as it heals it can turn darker. As a rule the more new blood that is inside the lesions the lighter reddish pink it will be. If it goes deeper it can be more purple especially if it is larger and has nodules on it. As a rule if it is changing you should see your md to have it looked at.

Answer 6

It's not: Unfortunately, there are no known preventive measures for sarcoma.

Answer 7

Can't: Sarcomas, like all malignancies, ultimately involve mutations that dysregulates growth and multiplication of particular cells in the body. Although exposure to mutagens(e.G x-rays, chemicals) or having an inherited mutation (e.g. Li fraumeni syndrome) may markedly increase risk, random errors accumulate and no one is exempt. You can mitigate but not completely prevent sarcomas.

Answer 8

Not necessarily.: There is a huge variability within sarcomas and within carcinoids. Within sarcomas there are some very aggressive varieties, and some very slow growing ones. The same is true for carcinoid. So unfortunately you can't make that generalization without knowing some more information.

Answer 9

It is different: Sarcoma is a soft tissue/bone cancer; carcinoid is a neuroendocrine tumor. They both are completely different disease. Soft tissue sarcomas grow at various rates depending on the aggressiveness of the - could be presented with as fast growing tumor or slower growing process.Same thing with carcinoid- it can be presented as a slow growing tumor or more agressive one in high grade carcinoid.

Answer 10

Yes: Ks can develop in patents with hiv.

Answer 11

Yes: Kaposi's sarcoma (ks) is caused by a herpesvirus. Transplant patients or other immunocopromised patients such as those with aids are more susceptible to infection. Restoration of immune competence by treatment with retroviral therapy may help control ks.

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No: Not usually. There are no specific genetic syndromes that predispose pts to sarcoma unlike breast cancer, ovarian, colon cancer etc. Having said that, there may be some new mutations causing a saroma that may be ocassionally transmitted.

Answer 13

ACTUALLY IT CAN BE: There are some genetic abnormalities that predispose people to have sarcoma- for instance: li- fraumeni syndrome- where there is 7% risk for sarcoma; gardner syndrome/fap- related to high frequency of intraabdominal desmoid tumor, retinoblastoma is associated with osteosarcoma, rothmund-thomson syndrome (poikiloderma congenitale) is associated with osteosarcoma- etc.

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