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April 29, 2021 – 10:30 am
About 3,500 new cases per year in Italy. This tumor affects, especially in young people before the age of 20 and in adults over 60, bones and soft tissues, muscles, cartilages, vessels, adipose tissue. The therapies are very complex and require specific skills, so it is good to contact highly specialized centers.
of Vera Martinella
Sarcoma a generic term for a tumor that grows in supporting tissues, such as connective tissue (so-called mesenchymal tissues) – explains Vittorio Quagliuolo, head of the Oncological Surgery and Sarcoma Surgery Unit at the Humanitas Institute in Milan -: these are tumors that generally develop in the muscles, subcutaneous tissue or bone. In practice, in addition to the bones, they affect muscles, cartilages, blood vessels, adipose tissue, which are throughout our body. They occur mainly in the limbs and trunk, more rarely in visceral organs. They are divided into more than 80 subtypes (or histological types) different from each other mainly for the degree of aggression, as well as for the site in which they develop.
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