Celebrating Sarcoma Awareness Month This July

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) image of a sarcoma

Let’s get straight to the point. People do not immediately associate sarcoma when encountering the term “cancer’. Some may not even know what a sarcoma is. Individuals always think of skin, breast, lung, ovarian, and prostate cancer but only seldom will you encounter a person that would think of sarcoma first before the aforementioned ones. This month, July, is designated as Sarcoma Awareness Month and is the perfect time to learn about the disease and why, despite being highly dangerous and difficult to overcome.

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) image of a sarcoma c/o Dr. Stephen Boppart, Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory, University …read more