Sarcoma
Discussion List
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Gleevec experience wanted for DFSP
Has anyone out there had a regiment of Gleevec to curtail a DFSP mass? I know it is rather rare as surgery (wide local or MMS-Moh's) is generally first used. Gleevec is then used for metastatic or recurrent DFSP, but also at first, for UNRESECTABLE DFSP. In case someone has a very tricky location of the tumor, Gleevec is…
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Synovial Sarcoma survivors wanted! Would love to hear stories!
Hello Survivors! My name is Scarlett, I am 19 years old and I live in San Diego, California. This is a long one, but I would really appreciate you reading it! Here is some background...last February I was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma. It was in my left forearm. I don't remember the approx. dimensions, but I remember…
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synovial cell sarcoma
I was diagnosed with synovail cell sarcoma on my upper arm feb 2006. I had surgery then radiation for 40 days and chemo for 5 days a week/month for 6 months after diagnosis. Anybody who have same case like mine?
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Osteosarcoma
I am a 39 year old woman who was recently diagnosed with small cell surfaced based osteosarcoma in my left distal femur. I am being treated in Denver by Dr. Hinshaw with Adriamyacin pump for 3 days then Cysplatin fed through a cathedar line to the tumor site where they place high doses. I have gone through two rounds of…
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dfsp information dermato fibrosarcoma protuberans
i was diagnosed with dfsp on late November 2008 after three surgeries we achieve negative margins. we went with wide excision surgery i just had a skin graph a few days back and now i am in the hospital recovering. the skin graph hurt the most out of the other 3 surgeries combine. i know that there is not alot of…