Key result
Angiosarcoma is a rare, aggressive soft tissue sarcoma that requires a multidisciplinary treatment approach including wide margin surgical resection, radiotherapy, and systemic therapies.
Why the study?
Angiosarcoma is a very rare endothelial soft tissue sarcoma with typically poor prognosis, warranting an updated discussion of disease biology and evolving treatments.
This review summarizes the current understanding of angiosarcoma, highlighting the need for a multidisciplinary approach including surgery, radiotherapy, and systemic therapies for this rare and aggressive disease.
Multidisciplinary angiosarcoma care remains appropriate; leaves open optimal sequencing for prospective trials.
Angiosarcoma is a very rare soft tissue sarcoma that originates from endothelial cells and typically has a poor prognosis. It is most commonly found in elderly white men and can occur anywhere in the body, particularly in the head, neck, and scalp. Patients who have undergone previous radiation treatment or who have chronic lymphedema also face an elevated risk of this condition. Various genetic changes are suspected to contribute to the development of angiosarcoma, and these changes have been identified as potential targets for treatment. For localized disease, wide surgical resection is often the prudent course of action. A multidisciplinary approach, which may include surgery, radiotherapy, systemic chemotherapy, or immunotherapy, is typically the most effective way to achieve favorable outcomes. In this review, we discuss the general understanding of angiosarcoma and its management, with a particular focus on the current evolving treatments for the disease.
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Kim et al. (2023) conducted a review in Angiosarcoma. Angiosarcoma is a rare, aggressive soft tissue sarcoma that requires a multidisciplinary treatment approach including wide margin surgical resection, radiotherapy, and systemic therapies.
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