Soft tissue Sarcoma

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Cancer is often challenging, however, diagnosis of rare cancer poses extra difficulties. Of all the diagnosed cancers, approximately 22% of the cases are rare cancers. According to the US National Cancer Institute, a cancer rare cancers as those with an incidence of fewer than 15 cases per 100 000 per year. Rare...

Evotec, Chinook Therapeutics to Advance Chronic Kidney Diseases Therapy Market Evotec and Chinook Therapeutics have collaborated to develop and discover precision medicine therapies for patients with chronic kidney diseases (CKD). The duo plans to jointly identify, characterize and validate novel mechanisms and ...

Soft tissue sarcoma- a rare tumor – accounting for less than 1% of all cancers – has the major unmet need in the form of limited treatment options for patients. Cytotoxic chemotherapy has been the mainstay of therapy for decades. Active drugs such as doxorubicin, ifosfamide, gemcitabine, taxanes, and several othe...

What does a yellow ribbon signify? It symbolizes support for Sarcoma patients. Sarcoma – an umbrella term for several forms of cancer that occur in muscles or bones – is a rare form of cancer. There exist more than 70 types of sarcomas – mostly considered rare – classified on the basis of the type of tissue they af...