Treatment of alveolar soft part sarcoma will be surgery whenever possible.

Alicia Parlette, 28, American journalist and copy editor, alveolar soft part sarcoma.

Alveolar soft part sarcoma.

Added text about the NCT00942877 trial, which is a phase II study of cediranib in patients with alveolar soft part sarcoma.

Cure Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma International An international site with general information, a library, and a discussion group.

An alternate name for ASPSCR1 (derived from "Alveolar soft part sarcoma locus")

Reichardt P, Lindner T, Pink D, et al.: Chemotherapy in alveolar soft part sarcomas.

The differential diagnosis histologically includes rhabdomyosarcoma, granular cell tumor, alveolar soft part sarcoma, hibernoma, oncocytoma, and crystal storing histiocytosis, among others.

Stacchiotti S, Tamborini E, Marrari A, et al.: Response to sunitinib malate in advanced alveolar soft part sarcoma.

The Alliance Against Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma Website dedicated to ASPS patients, information on treatments, etc.

Alveolar soft part sarcoma, abbreviated ASPS, is a very rare type of soft tissue sarcoma, that grows slowly and whose cell of origin is unknown.

Kayton ML, Meyers P, Wexler LH, et al.: Clinical presentation, treatment, and outcome of alveolar soft part sarcoma in children, adolescents, and young adults.

Fanburg-Smith JC, Miettinen M, Folpe AL, et al.: Lingual alveolar soft part sarcoma; 14 cases: novel clinical and morphological observations.

Ogose A, Yazawa Y, Ueda T, et al.: Alveolar soft part sarcoma in Japan: multi-institutional study of 57 patients from the Japanese Musculoskeletal Oncology Group.

Casanova M, Ferrari A, Bisogno G, et al.: Alveolar soft part sarcoma in children and adolescents: A report from the Soft-Tissue Sarcoma Italian Cooperative Group.

Azizi AA, Haberler C, Czech T, et al.: Vascular-endothelial-growth-factor (VEGF) expression and possible response to angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab in metastatic alveolar soft part sarcoma.

ASPS Alveolar sarcoma of soft parts ASP sarcoma None Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) is a rare sarcoma (malignant tumor of connective tissue) of an unclear cause.

Argani P, Antonescu CR, Illei PB, et al.: Primary renal neoplasms with the ASPL-TFE3 gene fusion of alveolar soft part sarcoma: a distinctive tumor entity previously included among renal cell carcinomas of children and adolescents.