What is advanced metastatic sarcoma?!

What is advanced metastatic sarcoma?

Advanced and metastatic can be thought of as basically the same thing in this case. Advanced means it is stage III or IV and metastatic means that the cancer has 'seeded'. Metastatic literally means that the tumor has shed microscopic and small malignant cells of itself. Those small cells are picked up by the blood stream or the lymphatic system and can now travel throughout the body.

The malignant cells can than lodge somewhere else and start a secondary tumor far away from the original.

Advanced or metastatic sarcoma is serious and more difficult to treat, but it is not the death sentence it once was. It is treatable and people with advanced and metastatic sarcoma survive. Don't listen to those who say otherwise.

My son has metastatic abdominal sarcoma. His doctors were very methodical in eliminating the cancer from throughout his body. He is still fighting because this is a very stubborn and persistent type of cancer. He had high dose chemotherapy because it is a systemic treatment. The chemo enters the blood stream and bascially goes throughout the body to kill off those metastatic small cells before they can grow into a new tumor. Chemo also can shrink the large tumors, which is what happened with out son. Surgery was than used to remove the bulk of the tumors. More chemo was used to control the spread of disease. A new effective surgical procedure removed all visible signs of tumor within the abdomen, followed by heated chemo to kill off the micrsoscopic disease. Whenever he has a reoccurence than that area was methodically addressed. It can be difficult but not impossible to stay just in front of this type of cancer.

With sarcoma, however, it does seem that the best treatment is complete surgical removal, if at all possible.

There is a group called the Sarcoma Alliance that can give you more specific information:
http://www.sarcomaalliance.com/...