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On Aug. 8, 2016, five-year-old Piper was diagnosed with metastatic Ewings sarcoma, a complicated and rare form of bone cancer.
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The cause was complications of sarcoma, her husband, Dave Sutter, said.
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She was diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma in 2012, as a 14-year-old student at John F. Kennedy Middle School in Enfield.
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There are more than 50 types of sarcomas seen in children.
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The most common are osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma, which mostly come from bones, and rhabdomyosarcoma, which arises from muscle.
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Before then, estimates of how many women with fibroids would have undiagnosed leiomyosarcomas or other uterine sarcomas were based on studies of varying reliability, and ranged from 1 in 10,000 to in 1 in 500.
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Origin and Etymology of sarcoma
New Latin, from Greek sarkōmat-, sarkōma fleshy growth, from sarkoun to grow flesh, from sark-, sarx
Medical Dictionary
sarcoma
playMedical Definition of sarcoma
sarcomas
alsosarcomata
\-mət-ə\play: a malignant tumor arising in tissue of mesodermal origin (as connective tissue, bone, cartilage, or striated muscle) that spreads by extension into neighboring tissue or by way of the bloodstream—compare carcinoma
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