Sarcomas account for over 20% of all pediatric solid malignant cancers and less than 1% of
all adult solid malignant cancers. The vast majority of diagnosed sarcomas will be soft tissue …

Sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of tumors that may have many etiologies. The
incidence of histologic subtypes differs significantly between children and adults. The …

Background Sarcomas are rare, phenotypically heterogeneous cancers that
disproportionately affect the young. Outside rare syndromes, the nature, extent, and clinical …

Although the epidemiology of malignant bone tumours in children and young adults has
been explored, no definitive causation of any specific tumour has yet been identified. We …

Based on the data of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Section of the
National Cancer Institute (SEER) program, soft tissue and bone sarcomas account for about …

This paper presents the analysis of familial cancer data collected in a hospital-based study
of 159 childhood soft-tissue-sarcoma patients. Two different statistical models detected …

Objective s Osteosarcoma typically occurs during puberty. Studies of the association
between height and/or birth-weight and osteosarcoma are conflicting. Therefore, we …

In the study of international childhood cancer incidence coordinated by the International
Agency for Research on cancer, soft‐tissue sarcomas comprised between 4 and 8% of all …

Abstract BACKGROUND The Children's Cancer Group conducted a case‐control study to
determine the role of a broad range of environmental and familial factors in the etiology of …

Osteosarcoma derives from primitive bone-forming mesenchymal cells and is the most
common primary bone malignancy. The incidence rates and 95% confidence intervals of …