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Soft Tissue Sarcoma Causes, Risk Factors, and Prevention

Learn about the risk factors for soft tissue sarcoma and if there are things you can do that might help lower your risk.

Risk Factors

A risk factor is anything that affects your chance of getting a disease such as cancer. Learn more about the risk factors for soft tissue sarcoma.

Prevention

The only way to prevent some soft tissue sarcomas is to avoid exposure to risk factors whenever possible. Still, most sarcomas develop in people with no known risk factors. At this time, there's no known way to prevent this cancer. And for people getting radiation therapy, there's usually little choice.

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