Sarcomas

This page provides details of NCIN's work on sarcomas and on the Sarcoma Site Specific Clinical Reference Group (SSCRG). The Sarcoma SSCRG covers soft tissue and bone cancers.

The Chair of the Sarcoma SSCRG is Dr Sandra Strauss - Senior Clinical Lecturer and Consultant Medical Oncologist at UCL cancer Institute, UCL NHS Hospital Trust.

NCIN (Birmingham)  supports the SSCRG's analytical work programme and leads on requests for data on sarcomas.

• Sarcomas SSCRG events
• Sarcomas SSCRG membership
• Sarcomas SSCRG minutes

NCIN publications on sarcomas

The following NCIN publications focus on sarcomas:

Sarcomas

• Gynaecological Sarcoma Surgical Treatment
• Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas UK Incidence and Survival: 1996 to 2010
• Head & Neck Sarcoma of the Bone and Soft Tissue –Incidence Survival and Surgical Treatment
• Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas - Changes to Pathology Codes in the 4th Edition of the World Health Organisation Classification of Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas
• Endoprosthetic Replacement in the Surgical Treatment of Sarcoma Patients - An audit of EPR surgery recorded in HES data compared with a specialist sarcoma centre database (2000 – 2009)
• Soft Tissue Sarcoma Incidence and Survival Tumours Diagnosed in England Between 1985 and 2009
• Liposarcoma: incidence and survival rates in England
• Bone Sarcoma Incidence & Survival. Tumours diagnosed between 1985 and 2009
• Bone sarcoma: incidence and survival rates in England - October 2012 data briefing
• Incidence of sarcomas of the facial skeleton
• Co-morbidities of bone sarcoma patients
• Soft Tissue Sarcomas: incidence and survival rates in England
• The completeness of bone sarcoma data in the National Cancer Data Repository
• Bone Sarcomas: incidence and survival rates in England
• The completeness of soft tissue sarcoma data in the National cancer Data Repository
• Malignant tumours of the vertebral column, sacrum, coccyx and base of skull: estimating the annual incidence in England