I’m an actor and I’m playing the role of a young man with cancer of the “ass”. He says that the chemotherapy he is taking to treat the cancer doesn’t cause his hair to fall out? What is the scientific term for the cancer someone get on their ass?
I’m an actor and I’m playing the role of a young man with cancer of the “ass”. He says that the chemotherapy he is taking to treat the cancer doesn’t cause his hair to fall out? What is the scientific term for the cancer someone get on their ass?
A malignancy in this area would be a sarcoma – probably a rhabdomyosarcoma http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001429.htm of the skeletal muscle in the buttocks such as the gluteus maximus muscle. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.audreysmassage.com/images/medical/GluteusMaximus.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.audreysmassage.com/featurepage/gluteal.html&h=211&w=250&sz=23&tbnid=Y-PjsEjwZ-muSM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgluteus%2Bmaximus&usg=__77kVQFzXterlFY54rr2vcjJ94RM=&ei=2vlAS92cHIS1tgeKs7ht&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=5&ct=image&ved=0CBoQ9QEwBA
– that is of course unless it happened to be a skin cancer in that area.
Most chemotherapy regimens for rhabdomyosarcomas would cause hair loss.
Of course in theater there is the audience’s willing suspension of disbelief – you can change reality in a play. Sounds like a nutty script. Glad you don’t really have a malignancy of the as*.
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Hmmmm. Maybe you mean an anal canal carcinoma like Farrah Fawcet. These are becoming more common with sexually transmitted HPV infections. The treatment for these is radiation plus an IV cis-platinum / 5FU combination chemotherapy regimen with or without mitomycin. This might not cause hair loss.
It sure would help us to know exactly which body part you are asking about.
Yeah, what Spree said. Plus, you’d think an “actor” wouldn’t be researching on yahoo.
Tumors of the buttocks are generally sarcoma (cancers of bone and connective soft tissue) .. there are about 60 subtypes of sarcoma. The most common subtype of sarcomas to affect the buttock area is Liposarcoma (cancer of fat cells), Leiomyosarcoma (cancer of smooth muscle ), rhabdomyosarcoma (cancer of the skeletal muscles), fibrosarcoma (cancer of the fibrous connective tissue) and synovial sarcoma (cancer that occurs near the joints). Most of these types of cancer would receive first line treatment using chemo drugs that would cause hair loss. If the first line treatments fail to stop disease progression the second line treatments are moving towards more experimental targeted therapy drugs (in sarcoma) such as Sorafenib (Nexavar) and Sunitinib (Sutent) . . neither of these drugs cause hair loss, but they can cause a loss of pigmentation and turn the hair white or gray. These drugs (for Sarcoma) are being used more to control cancer progression and treat cancer as a ‘chronic disease’ than for ‘curative’ purposes.
NCI: Soft tissue sarcoma
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/soft-tissue-sarcoma
NCI: Targeted cancer therapies
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/targeted