Yet despite killing 40,000 women and men every year — a number that has not budged in decades despite gains in detection and treatment of early breast cancers — MBC shares something in common with the much
rarer angiosarcoma: Medical researchers know surprisingly little about it.
Therefore, identifying these genes also advances scientists» understanding of common human cancers such as lymphoma, and
rare angiosarcomas.
Not exact matches
Many people with
angiosarcoma, a
rare and aggressive cancer of the blood vessel lining, survived for only about six months beyond diagnosis.
Because
angiosarcoma is an exceedingly
rare cancer, it has never been the focus of large scale scientific endeavors.