After a Mardi Gras parade in February 2019, Taylor Fradella-Doucet noticed some soreness in her thigh, but she chalked it up to evidence of good time and kept going. A few days later, the 23-year-old noticed a lump on the same thigh. As a first-year medical student, Taylor knew a painless lump was something to get checked out.
She had some MRIs and met with a local orthopedic surgeon, who said it may be a fibroid.
“He gave...

Soft tissue sarcoma begins in the soft – or connective – tissues of the body, such as muscle, fat and blood vessels. There are dozens of ...
When leiomyosarcoma survivor Gail Walsh told her orthopedic oncologist Patrick Lin, M.D., that she planned to hike the Appalachian Trail,...