Question

Cancers arising from connective and fibrous tissues such as bone, cartilage, or muscle are called carcinomas. sarcomas. lymphomas. leukemias.

Answer 1

The correct answer is the sarcoma.

Sarcoma is a type of cancer that arises from transformed cells of mesenchymal origin. It is the cancer of connective or other non-epithelial tissue. Sarcoma is very rare, it affects people of all ages and includes cancers such as leiomyosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, and gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), Ewing's sarcoma, osteosarcoma.

Answer 2

Cancers arising from connective and fibrous tissues such as bone, cartilage, or muscle are called sarcomas. This is a rare kind of cancer that arises from transformed cells of mesenchymal origin. The tumors affect the soft tissues which includes fat, muscle, blood vessels, deep skin tissues, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments.