The pathologic differential diagnosis is the grouping of small-blue-round-cell tumors, which includes lymphoma, alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, and desmoplastic small round cell tumor, among others.
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Rare histologic types of esophageal cancer include different variants of squamous-cell carcinoma, and non-epithelial tumors, such as leiomyosarcoma, malignant melanoma, rhabdomyosarcoma and lymphoma, among others.
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In December 2012 Paul Ryder's then ten-year-old son Chico was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer called Rhabdomyosarcoma and underwent ten months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
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The specific function of the paired box gene 7 is unknown but speculated to involve tumor suppression since fusion of this gene with a forkhead domain family member has been associated with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma.
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Diagnosed with a rare and aggressive muscle cancer ( rhabdomyosarcoma ) shortly after the 1994 season, Allen underwent surgery in August 1996, then returned to coach the final two games of the season.
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Soft-tissue sarcomas are more commonly found in older patients ( > 50 years old ) although in children and adolescents under age 20, certain histologies are common ( rhabdomyosarcoma, synovial sarcoma ).
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DSRCT shares characteristics with other small-round blue cell cancers including Ewing's sarcoma, acute leukemia, small cell mesothelioma, neuroblastoma, primitive neuroectodermal tumor, rhabdomyosarcoma, and Wilms'tumor.
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These hereditary cases tend to be younger, often have a multinodular thyroid goiter and there may be a personal or family history of other rare tumors such as pleuropulmonary blastoma, Wilms tumor and cervical rhabdomyosarcoma.
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Radiation therapy, which kill cancer cells with focused doses of radiation, is often indicated in the treatment of rhabdomyosarcoma, and the exclusion of this treatment from disease management has been shown to increase recurrence rates.
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"p " 53 loss-of-function is associated with many cancers including rhabdomyosarcoma, and approximately 50 % of RMS cases have been shown to carry some form of mutation to the p53 gene.
