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liposarcoma

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liposarcoma [‚lip·ə·sär′kō·mə]
(medicine)
A sarcoma originating in adipose tissue. Also known as embryonal-cell lipoma; fetal fat-cell lipoma; infiltrating lipoma; lipoblastoma; lipomyxoma; myxolipoma; myxoma lipomatodes.


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Chantelle Labbe, 20, a student at Pasadena City College, learned that firsthand last May when she was diagnosed with liposarcoma, a rare cancerous tumor was discovered in her abdominal wall.
Liposarcoma is arises out of fat and it especially occurs in the thigh.
The pathological examination revealed it to be the liposarcoma, a cancer of fatty tissue most commonly found in the back part of the belly, the doctors said.
 
 
 
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