Phenol is widely used for years as local adjuvant treatment for bone tumours. Despite its use for a long time, no information is available about the local concentration of phenol that is achieved in an individ...
Authors: Suzan HM Verdegaal, Jan den Hartigh, Pancras CW Hogendoorn, Hugo FG Brouwers and Antonie HM Taminiau
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary high-grade bone tumor in both adolescents and children. Early tumor detection is key to ensuring effective treatment. Serum marker discovery and validation for pediatric...
Authors: Yulia A Savitskaya, Genaro Rico-Martínez, Luis Miguel Linares-González, Ernesto Andrés Delgado-Cedillo, René Téllez-Gastelum, Alfonso Benito Alfaro-Rodríguez, Antonio Redón-Tavera and José Clemente Ibarra-Ponce de León
Ewing sarcoma patients have a poor prognosis despite multimodal therapy. Integration of combination immunotherapeutic strategies into first-/second-line regimens represents promising treatment options, particu...
Authors: Dagmar Berghuis, Marco W Schilham, Hanneke I Vos, Susy J Santos, Stephan Kloess, Emilie P Buddingh', R Maarten Egeler, Pancras CW Hogendoorn and Arjan C Lankester
Ewing Sarcoma is the second most common primary bone sarcoma with 900 new diagnoses per year in Europe (EU27). It has a poor survival rate in the face of metastatic disease, with no more than 10% survival of t...
Authors: Annmeik M van Maldegem, Pancras CW Hogendoorn and Andrew B Hassan
Ewing sarcoma/PNET is managed with treatment paradigms involving combinations of chemotherapy, surgery, and sometimes radiation. Although the 5-year survival rate of non-metastatic disease approaches 70%, thos...
High grade primary bone sarcomas are rare cancers that affect mostly children and young adults. Osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma are the most common histological subtypes in this age group, with current multimod...
Authors: Annemiek M van Maldegem, Aparna Bhosale, Hans J Gelderblom, Pancras CW Hogendoorn and Andrew B Hassan
Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) is a relatively common soft-tissue tumor. A more aggressive appearing fibrosarcoma may arise in DFSP, changing its biological behavior. CD34 and apolipoprotein-D are high...
Authors: Emanuela Palmerini, Marco Gambarotti, Eric L Staals, Licciana Zanella, Gabriela Sieberova, Alessandra Longhi, Marilena Cesari, Stefano Bonarelli, Piero Picci, Pietro Ruggieri, Marco Alberghini and Stefano Ferrari
Desmoplastic small round cell tumour is a rare malignant tumour with a male to female ratio of 4:1. It manifests mostly at serosal sites. Here we present a case of a 28-year-old male patient, who presented wit...
Authors: Vincent PM Cliteur, Károly Szuhai, Hans J Baelde, Jurriaan van Dam, Hans Gelderblom and Pancras CW Hogendoorn
Myxoid liposarcoma (MLS) is a soft tissue sarcoma with adipocytic differentiation characterized by a unique chromosome rearrangement, t(12;16)(q13;p11). The exact efficacy of chemotherapy in MLS has not been c...
Authors: Daniela Katz, Piyaporn Boonsirikamchai, Haeson Choi, Alexander J Lazar, Wei-Lein Wang, Lianchun Xiao, Min S Park, Vinod Ravi, Robert S Benjamin and Dejka M Araujo
Sarcomas are rare, often fatal malignancies of connective tissues that can occur in genetic predisposition syndromes or result from carcinogen exposure. Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is not known to contribute to an...
Authors: Megan E Downing, Gillian S Dite and Mandy L Ballinger
The diagnostic entity malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of bone is, like its soft tissue counterpart, likely to be a misnomer, encompassing a variety of poorly differentiated sarcomas. When reviewing a seri...
Authors: Fredrik Mertens, Salvatore Romeo, Judith VMG Bovée, Roberto Tirabosco, Nick Athanasou, Marco Alberghini, Pancras CW Hogendoorn, Angelo P Dei Tos, Raf Sciot, Henryk A Domanski, Kristina Åström, Nils Mandahl and Maria Debiec-Rychter
A 35-year-old female presented with pain and swelling of the distal left radius. A diagnosis of Ewing sarcoma was made and she underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery. Macroscopic viable areas remained ...
Authors: Noemie Vanel, Victoire Vierling, Jennifer Kreshak, Marco Gambarotti, Stefania Cocchi, Cristina Tranfaglia and Daniel Vanel
Aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) has recently been shown to be a marker of cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) across tumour types. The primary goals of this study were to investigate whether ALDH is expressed in lipos...
Authors: Eva W Stratford, Russell Castro, Anna Wennerstrøm, Ruth Holm, Else Munthe, Silje Lauvrak, Bodil Bjerkehagen and Ola Myklebost
Leiomyosarcoma of deep soft tissues of the extremities is a rare malignant tumour treated primarily by surgery. The incidence of local recurrence and lymph node metastasis is uncertain and it is not known whet...
Authors: Michael J Lamyman, Henk P Giele, Paul Critchley, Duncan Whitwell, Max Gibbons and Nicholas A Athanasou
This review is intended to provide histopathologists with guidelines for clinical assessment, specimen handling and diagnostic reporting of benign and malignant primary bone tumours. Information from radiology...
Authors: D Charles Mangham and Nicholas A Athanasou
Chondrosarcomas are malignant cartilage-forming tumors which are highly resistant to conventional chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Estrogen signaling is known to play an important role in proliferation and diffe...
Authors: Danielle Meijer, Hans Gelderblom, Marcel Karperien, Anne-Marie Cleton-Jansen, Pancras CW Hogendoorn and Judith VMG Bovée
Chordomas are rare neoplasms, arising from notochordal remnants in the midline skeletal axis, for which the current treatment is limited to surgery and radiotherapy. Recent reports suggest that receptor tyrosi...
Authors: Barbara Dewaele, Francesca Maggiani, Giuseppe Floris, Michèle Ampe, Vanessa Vanspauwen, Agnieszka Wozniak, Maria Debiec-Rychter and Raf Sciot
Parosteal osteosarcoma is a well-differentiated variant of osteosarcoma that affects the surface of the bone. The imaging pattern is very typical. We report two cases mimicking an osteochondroma, radiologicall...
Authors: Zafiria G Papathanassiou, Marco Alberghini, Philippe Thiesse, Marco Gambarotti, Giuseppe Bianchi, Cristina Tranfaglia and Daniel Vanel
Welcome to Clinical Sarcoma Research a new open access, online medical journal providing a forum for clinical knowledge on rare solid cancers - sarcomas. We believe there is a vacuum, which this effort may hope t...
