Dr. Igor Matushansky: Soft-Tissue Sarcomas—What You Need to Know

OncologySTAT Editorial Team. 2011 Aug 18, Interview by L Scott Zoeller

Dr. Matushansky is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. OncologySTAT: Would you discuss diagnosis and classification of soft tissue sarcomas? How are adult sarcomas different from childhood sarcomas?Dr. Matushansky: Pathologically, soft tissue sarcomas are still classified as they were in the twentieth century. Usually patients will present with a soft tissue mass, which they will feel either as a bump or a lump....

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