Histiocytic sarcoma is an aggressive but rare cancer that occurs later in a dog’s life. Dogs with this type of cancer don’t typically live long after diagnosis.

How they did it — The researchers looked at shared genetic risk for histiocytic sarcoma across the three dog breeds, otherwise known as a genome-wide association study. Scientists use these ...

After 15 months, the disease became resistant to pexidartinib and transformed to histiocytic sarcoma. Patient 2 has skin-only involvement of a xanthogranuloma disorder. A KIF5B-FGFR1 fusion was ...

Histiocytic sarcoma is an aggressive cancer of immune cells, and although extremely rare in humans, it affects around one-in-five flat-coated retrievers.

Next-Generation Sequencing Delineates Clonal Origins and Informs Therapeutic Strategies in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Histiocytic Sarcoma Authors: Gregory W. Roloff, MD, Jeffrey I. Baron, PharmD ...

Histiocytic disorders are a group of disorders arising from an over-production of histiocytic white blood cells called histiocytes. ‘Histiocytosis’, meaning ‘tissue cell’, is a general ...

DENVER/Aug. 3, 2023 – A newly funded study will evaluate the potential of a cancer drug to control tumor growth and improve outcomes for dogs with histiocytic sarcoma, an aggressive and ...

Edith was unexpectedly diagnosed this May with two rare and aggressive cancers, histiocytic sarcoma and myelodysplastic syndrome type 5. Edith was the beloved wife of John J. McLaughlin Sr ...