Rate of growth depends on the site and type of sarcoma

Dr. Sandeep Nayak
23 years of experienceSurgical Oncologist

Dr. Indoo Ambulkar
20 years of experienceSurgical Oncologist
Sarcoma has to be treated by surgical excision if it is in the early stage / local disease. If it is not removed surgically, it can spread to local surrounding organs or other organs.

Dr. Yash Mathur
14 years of experienceOncologist
Sarcoma is a connective tissue tumor mainly. It is of different histological origin like from bones, muscles , cartilage etc. The rate of growth of tumor size also depends on the tumor grade and biological behavior. You need to show the reports to oncologist and Imaging on regular intervals to assess the growth rate

Dr. Rajas Patel
9 years of experienceMedical Oncologist
Usually sarcomas grow aggressively. Exact type of sarcoma, stage at diagnosis & previous treatment details are required to comment

Dr. Trinanjan Basu
13 years of experienceRadiation Oncologist
Sarcomas are wide variety of soft tissue/bone tumors. Few can be very slow growing over many years (Like low grade sarcomas), whereas few are very fast growing (Like pleomorphic sarcomas, osteosarcomas).

Dr. Ninad V Katdare
13 years of experienceGastrointestinal Surgeon
The growth rate of sarcomas depends on the grade. A low grade sarcoma is a slow growing Tumor which may take even an year to reach 5cm or less. On the other hand, a high grade sarcoma not only increases rapidly in size, it can also spread to other organs, like lung, very fast