Soft tissue sarcoma epidemiology and demographics
Template:Soft tissue sarcoma Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Soft tissue sarcomas are relatively uncommon cancers. They account for less than 1% of all new cancer cases each year.[1]
Epidemiology
Incidence
In 2006, about 9,500 new cases were diagnosed in the United States.[2]
Age
Soft tissue sarcomas are more commonly found in older patients (>50 years old) although in children and adolescents under age 20, certain histologies are common (rhabdomyosarcoma).
Percent Distribution of Soft Tissue Sarcoma by Histology
- Fibrosarcoma: 6.9%
- Infantile fibrosarcoma: 0.2%
- Fibrous histiocytoma, malignant: 9.2%
- Dermatofibrosarcoma: 3.6%
- Liposarcoma: 17.1%
- Leiomyosarcoma: 13.2%
- Rhabdomyosarcoma: 3.1%
- Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma: 1.3%
- Hemangiosarcoma: 3.7%
- Hemangiopericytoma, malignant: 0.5%
- Kaposi sarcoma: 0.8%
- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor: 1.6%
- Malignant neurilemmoma: 0.2%
- Neuroblastoma: 0.6%
- Synovial sarcoma: 4.8%
References
- ↑ Zahm SH, Fraumeni JF (1997). "The epidemiology of soft tissue sarcoma". Semin Oncol. 24 (5): 504–14. PMID 9344316.
- ↑ Ries LAG, Harkins D, Krapcho M, et al. SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975–2003. Bethesda , MD: National Cancer Institute, 2006.