What Soft Tissue Sarcoma is

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Dr. Templeton explains soft tissue sarcoma, which is a form of sarcoma that develops in connective tissue.

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What Soft Tissue Sarcoma is A sarcoma in general is a kind of cancer that occurs in connective tissue, which means it’s something other than your organ. So it’s not your lung, it’s not your kidney, it’s not your liver. It’s everything else, and it’s also not skin. So with things like muscles, nerves, blood vessels, bone. So that’s a sarcoma in general, a soft tissue sarcoma that are cancers that occur outside of the bone. So those again can occur in muscle, which is where we see them most frequently, occasionally will occur at nerves and in blood vessels. They happen in the places where you have the most muscle. So they can happen anywhere, but where you typically see them is around the buttock, the thigh, the shoulder, just where you have got more muscle and, therefore, you are more likely to develop the sarcoma.
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