ABSTRACT
Malignant tumors found in children are different from the ones that occur in adults. Compared to the malignancies in adults, the histological entities in pediatric patients are different and survival rates are higher among the children. Though pediatric soft tissue sarcomas are less common than leukemia and central nervous system malignancies, recognition of them is necessary to start the therapy as soon as possible. The delay of an appropriate treatment - chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, in some cases targeted therapy - is unfavorable because somatic damages and functional loss can occur. In our study at the oncology department of the 2nd Department of Pediatrics of Semmelweis University, we collected and analyzed the data of 90 children who were diagnosed with soft tissue sarcomas between January of 2000 and November of 2016. Our results correlate with the data collected worldwide.
