Sarcoma
What is Sarcoma?
A sarcoma is a rarely seen malignant tumor that can develop in bone and soft tissues including fat, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, deep skin tissues, and fibrous tissues that surround bones and joints. Sarcoma can affect adults, children, and teens.
A sarcoma is a rarely seen malignant tumor that can develop in bone and soft tissues including fat, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, deep skin tissues, and fibrous tissues that surround bones and joints. Sarcoma can affect adults, children, and teens.
There is a wide range of sarcoma types and can form in various parts of the body. The most common ones occur in the legs, ankles, feet (the lower extremities of the body) and trunk, chest wall, abdomen, and pelvis. Sarcomas also occur in the shoulders, arms, wrists, hands (the upper extremities of the body), head, and neck.
Where the sarcoma takes place, type and other factors affect the treatment options.
What are the Types of Sarcoma?
There are more than 70 types of sarcoma. In general, a sarcoma is a large group of cancers that develops in bone and/or soft tissue.
Primary Bone Sarcomas
Primary bone sarcoma is cancer that starts and develops in the bones. Primary bone sarcomas are most commonly diagnosed among children and people younger than 35 years old. “Osteosarcoma” is more frequently seen in children. “Chondrosarcoma” occurs more often in adults. These are the most common types. Also; Ewing’s sarcoma family of tumors, Chordoma, and Fibrosarcoma are the most known types of primary bone sarcomas.
Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Soft tissue sarcomas are a type of cancer that begins in the muscle or other connective tissues of the body such as arms, legs, chest, or abdomen. Soft tissue tumors can occur in children (“Rhabdomyosarcoma”) but commonly occurs in adults. There are more than 75 different subtypes of soft tissue sarcomas. Angiosarcoma, desmoplastic small round cell tumors, Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), Leiomyosarcoma, Liposarcoma, and Rhabdomyosarcoma are the most known types of soft tissue sarcomas
What are The Symptoms of Sarcoma?
Symptoms change due to the tumor’s location but the pain is the most common sarcoma symptom. Long-lasting bone pain or swelling in the arm or leg that gets worse at night and/or difficulty with normal movement are the symptoms that may be realized during stages.
Other symptoms that have to be paid attention to;
- The presence of a painless lump,
- Trouble moving the arm or leg,
- Unexplained weight loss,
- Back pain,
- Fatigue,
- Fever,
- Weight loss,
- Anemia
Treatments for Sarcoma in Turkey (Türkiye)
In Turkey, both adult and pediatric Sarcoma is treated with a multidisciplinary team that includes medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and orthopedic surgeons by a combination of chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery.
There is a full range of treatment options that need to be considered for treating Sarcoma. Traveling to Turkey will provide the best treatment that fits the individual’s needs and goals.
If it is possible “surgery” will be the first option for treating Sarcoma. Chemotherapy and Radiation therapy are the other options that can be planned besides the surgery or as single treatments on their own.
All the experts in Turkey have extensive experience diagnosing and treating sarcoma. When you decide to travel to Turkey you will get scientific excellence and a multispecialty approach focused on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.
Getting your Sarcoma treatment in Turkey will help you to get a personalized care plan that takes all of your needs into consideration and provides an experience that you can trust.
Turkish doctors have experience in diagnosing and treating all types of sarcoma, including very rare types. On the other hand, Turkey offers comprehensive cancer centers that meet high standards and the latest treatment options.
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