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The incidence of desmoid tumors is 5–6 per million per year; [2] they constitute 0.03% of tumors and less than 3% of soft-tissue tumors. The primary age range is 15–60, with a peak between 30 and 40 years old; it is 2–3 times more common in females than males.
Adolescents and young adults with cancer have not attained the same improvements in overall survival as either younger children or older adults. [15] The 5-year survival rate for all invasive adolescent and young adult cancers diagnosed from 2002 to 2006 in the United States was 82.5%. [16]
A soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) is a malignant tumor, a type of cancer, that develops in soft tissue. [1] A soft-tissue sarcoma is often a painless mass that grows slowly over months or years. They may be superficial or deep-seated. Any such unexplained mass must be diagnosed by biopsy. [2]
The term fibromatosis refers to a group of soft tissue tumors [1] which have certain characteristics in common, including absence of cytologic and clinical malignant features, a histology consistent with proliferation of well-differentiated fibroblasts, an infiltrative growth pattern, and aggressive clinical behavior with frequent local recurrence.
In the United States in 2012, it was estimated that there was an incidence of 12,000 new cases, and 1,300 deaths, from cancer among children 0 to 14 years of age. [64] Cancer is the second leading cause of death in males and fourth in women under the age of 20 in the United States. The survival rate of children with cancer has improved since ...
Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) [2] is a rare locally aggressive malignant cutaneous soft-tissue sarcoma. DFSP develops in the connective tissue cells in the middle layer of the skin (dermis). [3] Estimates of the overall occurrence of DFSP in the United States are 0.8 to 4.5 cases per million persons per year.
At age 21, it was strange coming to terms with having an “old man cancer.” Mesothelioma is what I cynically call an “old man cancer,” because the typical demographic affected is men ...
Angiomatoid fibrous histiocytoma (AFH) is a rare soft tissue cancer that affects children and young adults. Pathology