Taking a hard look at soft-tissue sarcomas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soft-tissue sarcomas are a rare form of cancer, accounting for less than one percent of cancer cases in the United States. But for patients and families dealing with this disease, the cancer is omnipresent. Although most large-scale studies of cancer genomes have focused on common forms of cancer, such as lung cancer, brain cancer, or breast cancer, a paper in the new issue of Nature Genetics sheds new light on many of the genomic alterations found in some types of soft-tissue sarcomas.

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