4-time rare sarcoma survivor finds new treatment options — and hope — at MD Anderson
By the end of 2022, Idaho resident Patty Hornby had already endured three major surgeries to remove a rare, recurrent soft tissue sarcoma called a solitary fibrous tumor from her chest cavity. So, when a routine CT scan showed more new tumors there in late 2022, the 9-year survivor was dismayed.
“We’d been told repeatedly that surgery was the only possible treatment,” Patty recalls. “But we were also told you could only cut...