Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A malignant tumor arising from vascular tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sarcoma, or tumor, in which the blood-vessels assume importance from their number, size, and relation to the structure of the tumor.
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- noun medicine Any
malignant tumour ofvascular tissue
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rare malignant neoplasm arising from vascular tissue; usually occurs in the breast and skin and is believed to originate from the endothelial cells of blood vessels
Etymologies
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Examples
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Researchers, including those at the National Cancer Institute, plan to launch three clinical trials later this year in dogs with osteosarcoma, a bone cancer, angiosarcoma, a blood-vessel cancer, and melanoma, the deadly skin cancer.
Dogs Get Cancer Like People, and Hold Clues to Cures Amy Dockser Marcus 2012
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Now, researchers at Loyola University Health System in Maywood, Ill., have focused in on a finding that could be a possible precursor to angiosarcoma.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The main question is, 'Are there special markers or other histological features underneath the microscope that would suggest that on atypical vascular lesion is worse and more likely to develop into an angiosarcoma and another one is not?'
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The study concludes that the focus of future research should be on finding markers to detect which type of atypical vascular lesions are more likely to lead to an angiosarcoma.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"We wanted to make sure that nothing was left that could progress to an angiosarcoma,"
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The project began with the study of hemangiosarcoma - angiosarcoma in humans - a cancer for which there are currently no effective treatments.
YubaNet.com 2010
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They diagnosed cardiac angiosarcoma, an extremely rare form of cancer.
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Physicians have long noticed that breast cancer patients who have had surgery or radiation therapy have an heightened risk of developing angiosarcoma, a rare type of cancer that originates in the lining of the blood vessels.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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They diagnosed cardiac angiosarcoma, an extremely rare form of cancer.
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The study concludes that the focus of future research should be on finding markers to detect which type of atypical vascular lesions are more likely to lead to an angiosarcoma.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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