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Since only 1% of all cancers in adults are sarcomas, there is very little professional interest or research funding in creating a cure. In children it is 20%. Comparing the percentages of other "well-populated" cancers, funding for research is aimed elsewhere. So, other cancers get the opportunity to have new treatments available. Many cancers that were deadly forty years ago when I was first diagnosed are now treatable. In fact many of them have a cure. Little progress has been made in the field of sarcoma.

How many types of sarcoma are there? Good question.

I could say the answer is unknown, and I suppose that is officially true. The question has bothered me for some time and I set out more than once to learn as much as I could.

I came up with a list and shared it with some friends. Later, I misplaced the list, somewhere in the storage banks of my computer. Today I noticed it and decided to post it before I forget and lose it again.

This is the list as it stands at the moment

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