BACKGROUND The radiographic evaluation of the response to preoperative chemotherapy for bone and soft tissue sarcomas is based mostly on the change in primary tumor size before and after chemotherapy, as is done for many solid cancers. Its prognostic correlation, however, has hardly been validated. METHODS We conducted a retrospective validation study of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (...

Chronic inflammation is a recognized risk factor for human cancer at various sites because of persistent oxidative and nitrative tissue damage. Trp53+/- mice show the predisposition to tumor development, such as sarcomas and lymphomas, compared with Trp53+/+ mice. We investigated the effects of chronic inflammation, especially oxidative and nitrative stress, induced by subcutaneous implantation...

Synovial sarcoma is a relatively common soft tissue malignancy that is characterized by a specific chromosomal t(X;18)(p11;q11) translocation. Transducin-like enhancer of split 1 (TLE1) has emerged as a useful marker for the diagnosis of synovial sarcoma. However, the diagnostic value of this antibody remains controversial. We investigated TLE1 expression in sixty-two fluorescence in situ hybri...

There are more than 50 subtypes of soft tissue sarcomas, among which 30% are associated with specific genetic alterations, including translocations. Several studies have reported associations between cancer risk and polymorphisms of DNA repair genes from the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway. NER involves more than 20 proteins whose inactivation leads to xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) or coc...

PURPOSE Tumor-specific antigens of 3-methylcholanthrene (MCA)-induced sarcomas were defined by the narrow immune responses they elicited, which uniquely rejected the homologous tumor, with no cross-reactions between independently derived syngeneic MCA-induced tumors. This study examines whether an autophagosome-enriched vaccine derived from bortezomib-treated sarcomas can elicit an immune respo...

BACKGROUND Sarcomas are malignant neoplasms that occur anywhere in the human body. Though their occurrence in the head and neck region is rare vis-a-vis other malignancies, their presence is of tremendous concern due to their often grave prognosis. OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern of occurrence, histopathologic types of maxillofacial sarcomas and their proportion to other malignant neoplasm...

Newborn hamsters were injected subcutaneously with a suspension of finely minced Rous chicken sarcoma (Schmidt-Ruppin strain). After an interval of about 2 weeks, progressively growing sarcomas developed at the site of injection in almost all animals. Also in adult hamsters inoculated intramuscularly with the same material sarcomas developed at the site of injection within 2 to 4 months. Second...

Sarcomas of the esophagus, including carcinosarcoma, are rare neoplasm cases and comprise 0.1-1.5% of all esophageal tumors. Leiomyosarcoma is the most common of the pure mesenchymal tumors of the esophagus, but sarcomas with combined histological types such as carcinosarcoma occur more frequently than pure sarcomas. We report a rare case of spindle cell sarcoma of esophagus in a 55-year-old wo...

Objective: Soft Tissue Sarcomas are rare mesenchymal tumors with many subtypes. Clean margin wide resection is recommended for treatment.In this study, the location, histopathological features, clinical and demographic recurrence prognosis of retroperitoneal sarcomas were investigated. Methods: The demographic, immunohistochemical data 18 patients who operated on diagnosis mass between March 20...

Twenty foreign body sarcomas induced in CBA/H, CBA/H-T6, or AKR mice by s.c. implantation of foreign body material were investigated histologically and by electron microscopy in search of morphological characteris tics which would indicate the cell of origin. Eighteen of these sarcomas generally conformed to classes of anaplasticity defined earlier in our laboratory. Myxoid areas were apparent ...