“Cancer” is often a heavy word. For someone who hears the word from a doctor, it can bring up a range of negative emotions, from anxiety to anger, and we all recognize the seriousness of the word and give it absolute weight. There is also a rare cancer that develops from human soft tissues. It is called “Sarcoma” in English and “肉痛” in Chinese, which literally means “meat tumor”.
Women suffering from breast cancer are called breast cancer, and men suffering from prostate cancer are called prostate cancer. Why isn’t “meat cancer” translated as “meat cancer”? Sarcoma, or sarcoma, is clearly malignant.
Sarcomas are even more aggressive than some common cancers. Sarcomas are indeed tumors of flesh that can grow, invade, spread, and even take a person’s life, just like cancer. There is as much emotion and seriousness to be dealt with in a sarcoma patient as in any other cancer type.
Sarcomas are more deceptive than most cancers. As the saying goes, “When you hear hoofbeats, you don’t think of zebras,” most patients and physicians don’t notice or care to find sarcomas because sarcomas are so rare, accounting for only 1% of all cancers in adults; There is no obvious causative factor, and unlike lung or liver cancer, smoking or infections such as hepatitis C (hepatitis C) are rarely associated with sarcomas, and there are no auxiliary screening tools such as mammograms or colonoscopy, let alone passing Blood tests detected sarcoma.
Often patients diagnosed with early-stage sarcomas have few, vague, or no symptoms. Early-stage sarcomas often present as painless masses and are therefore often overlooked or treated as benign lipomas or cysts.
Once a sarcoma is discovered, it needs to be treated by a specialist who specializes in that cancer, or at least seek a second opinion from a sarcoma specialist to determine treatment options. Due to the complex nature of sarcoma and the fact that it is often misdiagnosed by non-specialist physicians or treated incorrectly, the follow-up medical outcomes are often poor.
All in all, the most critical thing for the Chinese community is the popularization and education of medical knowledge, we need to understand sarcoma and realize that although it is called “tumor”, it deserves the attention it deserves just like any “cancer” .
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