Sarcoma News

Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for everything we have. This year, one eastern Iowa woman is thankful for a very simple thing.

Mark Blinder, 4, who was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma at three, had his upper arm bone replaced last December with an artificial bone that will grow with him.

Marshall County Commission Chairman Doug Fleming is seeking treatments related to two types of cancer.

They are equally divided between the limbs and the torso. There are more than 50 different types of soft-tissue sarcomas and sarcoma-like growths.

A radiation breakthrough to treat breast cancer patients in one day, as opposed to the current average of six weeks, has arrived at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Philadelphia.

Editor's Choice Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Bones / Orthopaedics Article Date: 19 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST Bone cancer is an uncommon cancer that begins in a bone.

CommissarMo Abstract Marine pharmacology, the pharmacology of marine natural products, has been for some time more associated with marine natural products chemistry rather than mainstay pharmacology.

The "Spalon-a-thon" fundraiser was for 8-year-old Shay Hall, who has sarcoma and massive medical bills.

CHILDREN battling cancer in Oxfordshire are to have their courage recognised by a host of celebrities.

China Medical Technologies received SFDA approval for its Leukemia BCR/ABL fusion gene detection FISH Probe.

Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced a presentation related to Threshold's clinical stage hypoxia-activated prodrug, TH-302. The presentation was made at the Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium taking place in New York City from November 10 to 14, 2009.

Alexandra "Alex" Scott, who died of cancer in August 2004 at age 8, started a lemonade stand to raise funds for cancer research.

In this factsheet: The Facts on Oral Cancers Oral cancers are cancers of the mouth.

E-mail: nancy.ratner@cchmc.org 5 Received 2 July 2009; Revised 1 September 2009; Accepted 23 September 2009; Published online 9 November 2009.

Kaposi's sarcoma was first described in 1872 by the Hungarian dermatologist, Moritz Kaposi.

The happy gist of Ziopharm Oncology Inc.'s interim Phase II news with palifosfamide for soft-tissue sarcoma came as little surprise, but details disclosed at a scientific meeting proved enough to tickle the stock again by 12 percent, and should lend strength to partnering talks.

Ziopharm Oncology, Inc. achieved positive data from the multicenter randomized Phase II trial of palifosfamide in patients with unresectable or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.

E-mail: oda@surgpath.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp Received 4 June 2009; Revised 6 October 2009; Accepted 7 October 2009; Published online 6 November 2009.

Ewing's sarcoma, a rare bone tumor . Chemotherapy wasn't working and radiation would have destroyed the growth plates in his bones.

Ewing's sarcoma is a malignant tumor of the bones that occurs most commonly in adolescence and early adulthood.