2007-05-16 05:34:45 · 7 answers · asked by softballangel_007 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Sarcoma is one of the least common type of cancer and probably the most aggressive. There are many subtypes of sarcoma, all are very rare and often affect 50 or less people worldwide in a year. Sarcoma can hit any age group but it seems to be predominately a childhood cancer. For adults there are few treatment options. Sarcoma research is also seriously underfunded with major government cuts seriously affecting the ability to fight the disease.
My son has a rare sarcoma that affects fewer than 200 people worldwide at any given time.
All rare cancers are rotten because hardly any treatment options exist to help patients. At most patients rely on the trickle down treatment protocol . . they use treatments intended for other types of cancer in the hopes that they will have a response.
There is a small list of the 100's of rare cancers here:
http://www.rare-cancer.org/
NORD
http://www.rarediseases.org/
ListServ: Rare Cancer
http://listserv.acor.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ACOR.EXE?SUBED1=rare-cancer&A=1
Rare Cancer Network
http://www.rarecancer.net/
Rare Cancers and Related Disorders
http://www.cancerindex.org/clinks2d.htm
2007-05-16 06:30:23 · answer #1 · answered by Panda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I reported in CANCER a lymphsarcoma of the prostate and later a case of Leiomyosarcoma of the bladder. These are sarcomas and not cancers, but few have ever seen one.
2007-05-16 07:48:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even though you hear about it a lot, childhood cancer in general (including all childhood cancers) is the rarest. I am not sure what the most rarest cancer would be, I would think there would be more than one.
2007-05-17 15:55:04 · answer #3 · answered by junebug3714 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cancer on the list with the lowest incidence is thyroid cancer. The estimated number of new cases of thyroid cancer for 2007 is 33,550.
2007-05-16 05:38:48 · answer #4 · answered by EmilyRN 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Cervical cancer and ovarian cancer in men tie for the least number of occurances. You might think that breast cancer is on this list, but men can get breast cancer rarely.
2007-05-16 05:37:53 · answer #5 · answered by MrMyers 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I guess it depends on who you are talking about. Woman and men are succeptable to different types of cancer.... For example, woman get ovarian cancer and men prostate cancer. Can you bee more specific?
Brianne, RN.
2007-05-16 05:38:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
http://rarediseases.about.com/od/rarecancers/index_a.htm
can you say Google?
2007-05-16 05:38:40 · answer #7 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋