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Cardiac Sarcoma

Get the facts on Cardiac Sarcoma treatment, diagnosis, staging, causes, types, symptoms. Information and current news about clinical trials and trial-related data, Cardiac Sarcoma prevention, screening, research, statistics and other Cardiac Sarcoma related topics. We answer all your qestions about Cardiac Sarcoma.

Question: Have you heard of cardiac sarcoma? Im just wondering if many people have heard of it. It is a very rare heart cancer. My sister passed away a few years of it, and when I told people what she died of they looked at me like I was crazy.

Answer: Yes. There are over 60 different types of sarcoma and angiosarcoma or cardiac sarcoma is included in that list. People Living with Cancer: Cardiac Sarcoma http://www.plwc.org/portal/site/PLWC/men… Sarcoma located in the heart can be a primary lesion or secondary metastasis. Cardiac Sarcoma http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic282.ht…


Cardiac Sarcoma News

FDA approves Novartis drug Glivec(R) label recommending extending treatment to ...

Reuters
Study details The SSG XVIII clinical trial was conducted by the Scandinavian Sarcoma Group (SSG) and the Sarcoma Group of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Internistische Onkologie (AIO). This trial was a multicenter, prospective, randomized study for the ...
 

CHMP recommends EU approval to update Novartis drug Glivec(R) label to include ...

Reuters
Study details The SSG XVIII clinical trial was conducted by the Scandinavian Sarcoma Group (SSG) and the Sarcoma Group of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Internistische Onkologie (AIO). This trial was a multicenter, prospective, randomized study for the ...
 

Is Early Neutering Hurting Pets?

VetPracticeNews.com
Zink points out a retrospective study published in 1999 by Ware, et al, that found a five times greater risk of cardiac hemangiosarcoma in spayed vs. intact female dogs. Hemangiosarcoma is one of the three most common and devastatingly fatal cancers in ...