What is Angiosarcoma?

Angiosarcoma is a malignant, invasive cancer and it develop at a fast pace. Around the line of the wall of the blood vessels are endothelial cells. The endothelium is a thin layer of line where a tumor begins. More cells reproduce very quickly. There is a possibility the cells can turn cancerous. It is common for it to spread through the body. As with other cancers, the replication of cells is uncontrollable. A person\'s health is vulnerable by the connection with the circulatory system.

Hemangiosarcoma is a sarcoma that is very aggressive. It is very dangerous because it affects the blood vessels. A victim will bleed to death if the blood-filled vessel ruptures. The cells that are cancerous spread very quickly through the body affecting other healthy systems. Any condition that has an effect on the blood is very detrimental to a person\'s life. Angiosarcoma is destructive and it is very likely the condition will return making the cancer difficult to treat.

An angiosarcoma called lymphangiosarcoma is a tumor cell that comes from the endothelial cells of the lymphatic vessels. The lymph system\'s job is to distribute antibodies to the body. Any time the process is disrupted by these cancer cells it can spreads these deadly cells throughout the body.

Usually angiosarcoma is found in the soft tissue and the skin. However, it can start in other parts of the body such as:

Liver
Breast
Spleen
Bone
Heart

A more common type of angiosarcoma, called cutaneous angiosarcoma is located in the neck and head of elderly people.

It is not known what causes angiosarcomas. Stewart – Treves syndrome is a hemangiosarcoma and it is connected with exposure to toxins. Toxins such as:

Thorium dioxide
Vinyl chloride
Arsenic

This Stewart – Treves syndrome is caused by lymphedema occurring after breast cancer treatments like mastectomy and radiation. People are at higher risks of angiosarcoma if they have been exposed to vinyl chloride. Plastic industries use vinyl chloride during the manufacturing of polyvinyl chloride. Exposure of these toxins occurred 30 years ago but the conditions still arise. These types of angiosarcoma are harmful to the body. The aggressive condition is multicentric. The reoccurrence of these conditions are exceptionally high. It also spreads through your body at a rapid speed. This condition can be fatal and many times is misdiagnosed. It is not easy to treat this destructive tumor because the common therapies for cancer like chemotherapy do not work.

Researchers are doing thousand of studies all over the world about the tumor suppressor gene, P53. This gene is in the cells of the angiosarcoma of the liver. The p53 gene and all the molecules around it is what primarily researchers are focusing on.

Angiosarcoma is a malignant, invasive cancer and it develop at a fast pace. The tumor begins in the endothelium of the blood vessels. This cancer can spread quickly throughout the body due to its connection to the circulatory system.