Angiosarcoma

id: angiosarcoma-231-2725108
title: Angiosarcoma
text: Angiosarcoma is a rare and aggressive cancer that starts in the endothelial cells that line the walls of blood vessels or lymphatic vessels. Since they are made from vascular lining, they can appear anywhere and at any age, but older people are more commonly affected, and the skin is the most affected area, with approximately 60% of cases being cutaneous (skin). Specifically, the scalp makes up ~50% of angiosarcoma cases, but this is still <0.1% of all head and neck tumors. Since angiosarcoma is
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description: Cancer of the lining of the blood or lymphatic vessels
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiosarcoma
date created: 2004-10-10T00:40:49Z
date modified: 2024-09-15T18:51:00Z
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image: {"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Metastatic_angiosarcoma_in_the_brain.jpg","width":675,"height":437}
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