There are high grade and low grade sarcomas. Liposarcomas are misdiagnoses a lot. I hope his pathologist is good or maybe gets a consult.
misdiagnoses = misdiagnosed.
Two friends with sarcomas - both dead within a year of diagnosis. One relative with a sarcoma (Leiomyosarcoma) who got lucky - they discovered it while it was fairly “small” and evidently got it all with surgery (the ‘gold standard’ for LMS) since she’s made it 10 years. Sarcomas, as a group, are relatively resistant to chemotherapy and radiation, although there is variation within the group. For liposarcomas, surgery is the primary treatment. The combination of surgery and radiation therapy has been shown to prevent recurrence at the surgical site in about 85-90% of liposarcoma cases. The role of chemotherapy in the treatment of liposarcoma is not clearly defined, but it may be recommended in certain situations where patients are at high risk of recurrence or already have widespread disease. Since chemo is what they’re talking about for Ford (not surgery) and he has a “significant mass”, this doesn’t sound very promising to me.