Rhabdomyosarcoma, a malignant tumor, is one of the most common soft tissue tumors occurring during childhood. The tumors are associated with skeletal muscle and can emerge anywhere in the body.

A mother and daughter who battled a rare form of cancer are now working to help other families facing similar challenges ...

Adding 6 months of maintenance chemotherapy appears to improve survival for patients with high-risk rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) and will be the new standard of care in future European clinical trials, ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have revealed how the tumor suppressor gene PTEN plays a more important role in pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma than was previously appreciated. The ...

Germline cancer-predisposition variants (CPVs) can be helpful in predicting risk in some pediatric cancers. However, CPV risk association in children with rhabdomyosarcoma has not been well studied. A ...

A retrospective review found that younger children with rhabdomyosarcoma experience high local recurrence rates and suboptimal survival outcomes.

PRIMARY rhabdomyosarcoma of the tongue is a rare condition to which no reference is available for a complete pathological description or a sound therapeutic approach. The physician confronted with a ...

Long believed to arise from immature muscle cells, rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) appears to have a different origin. New research from St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, shows that ...