Soft tissue sarcoma is the generic name for more than 50 types of cancer that affect the so-called connective tissue, which serves as a separation between the different tissues of the body and to separate the different organs from each other.
It is found in all soft parts of the body - blood vessels, muscle tissue, nerves, tendons, the deepest part of the skin, etc.
The differences between all these types of sarcomas are in the type of cells that are affected, although they can appear in any part of the organism.
Soft tissue sarcomas account for approximately 1% of all cancers and account for 2% of deaths from this cause.
Soft tissue sarcoma symptom The most obvious sign of the existence of this type of sarcomas is the appearance of a bulge in any soft part of the body that is characterized by growing rapidly and usually without causing pain, at least initially, since its growth can subsequently press nerves Muscles the nearest organs.
Asymptomatic growth takes on a greater specificity when the sarcoma is located in the abdominal cavity, allowing it to acquire a very considerable size.
Treatment The most important part of the treatment in localized soft tissue sarcomas is surgery for the removal of the tumor, which is now supplemented with postoperative radiotherapy and, in some cases, reconstructive plastic surgery when surgery is necessarily radical and it is of a mutilating character.
It should be noted that most soft tissue sarcomas are treated in the same way.
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