Causes of Soft Tissue Sarcoma:The exact soft tissue sarcoma causes remain unclear, but several risk factors have been identified. These include a family history of inherited conditions such as ...

Soft tissue sarcomas are a group of rare cancers that can occur in almost any part of the body and develop in tissues like muscle, fat, and nerves. The most common types are leiomyosarcoma, ...

Ravin Ratan, MD, MEd, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains the origins of soft tissue sarcomas within the body—which account for 1% of cancers in adult patients—how they are ...