#Sarcoma

[wafafamilygaza]

🚨 Urgent Help Needed! 🚨

Hello, my name is Wafa. My family and I are from Gaza, and we have experienced unimaginable suffering since the war began. We have been displaced five times, losing everything—our home, belongings, and even our sense of security.

The most devastating loss was my father, who passed away on 30/11/2024 🕊️💔. He was the heart of our family, a man full of love and strength. He was battling sarcoma, a painful and aggressive type of cancer. Before the war, he was receiving chemotherapy, but as the war escalated, access to medical care became impossible. We couldn’t even provide him with basic pain relief or nutritious food.

We watched helplessly as his health deteriorated day by day under inhumane conditions. Losing him has left us broken and devastated.

Now, I live with my mother, my three sisters—Nadeen, Walaa, and Liqaa—and my two brothers, Mohamed and Ali, in a tent on our own. We struggle with everything, unable to provide for ourselves or meet even the most basic needs. The tent offers little protection, and we lack access to clean water, food, and proper sanitation. Every day is a challenge just to survive, and the uncertainty of our future weighs heavily on us all.

Your support can make an enormous difference in our lives. It will help us rebuild and regain some stability after losing everything. No donation is too small—every act of kindness brings us closer to a chance for healing and survival.

Donation Link: https://gofund.me/e6d3aee2

From the depths of my heart, I thank you for your compassion and generosity.

Wafa

✅ Our Campaign ✅

🔍 Vetted by @90-ghost here

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[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

sarcoma

[fireflieswcue]

Tribute to the greatest youtuber and minecraft player to ever live; Technoblade.

Happy World Cancer Day! The drawing is a bit rushed, but I just wanted to post a tribute to Technoblade.

Technoblade was the person who would have enemies and turn them into friends. Allies. His jokes always made his viewers laugh, including me, even after a bad day. He's the type of creator who's content you'll get hooked to. You watch one video and then proceed to watch the rest. There will never be another like him.

February 4th is celebrated as World Cancer Day, and brings recognition to cancer. The yellow ribbon I included around the sword is the representation of the rare and deadly sarcoma, a cancer that affects fats, muscles, blood-vessels, bones, nerves and other connective tissues. I would heavily recommend doing your reasearch on cancer. We lost the Blood God to this disease, and he rests so that we can work to stop us from losing others. It is a deadly killing machine that looms over us at all times. We must fight back.

[orpheusismefr]

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[bluebladefluff]

Serious question

Are you subscribed to Tommyinnit? He is trying to get to 15K becuase Highpixal will give him a custom rank, that only Technoblade has ever gotten, and they will personaly donate 50,000$ to the sarcoma foundation which is Technoblade's cancer foundation. I want to try to help him go and double check that subscription to Tommy 🫶

(Sorry for my English, I’m Dyslexic)

[sheherrecords]

We are proud to announce that KAAMOS, the second full-length album from SARCOMA, is out today! https://album.link/sarcoma-kaamos

KAAMOS marks a stark and fearless evolution in SARCOMA’s sound — descending into the bleak sonic landscapes of death industrial and classic power electronics.Written and recorded in the depths of winter, KAAMOS is an unflinching reflection on SARCOMA’s time in Finland, limerence, borderline personality disorder, and the isolating weight of dysphoria. Saturated with dense textures, haunting samples, and visceral emotional urgency, the album is described by the artist as “a breakup with her EBM phase.”

Following her contribution to TDoV Compilation 1, KAAMOS stands as SARCOMA’s first solo release on She/Her Records.

KAAMOS was written and recorded by a troubled and complicated lesbian. Expect nothing less than brutal honesty and uncompromising noise.

[sfiltron]

It just fell upon me: does anyone know the numbers of about how much of the sarcoma research is actually funded by Minecraft YouTubers?

[climamarx]

Service dog things. Service dog appreciation.

[picturesofhistology]

The craziest, biggest mitotic figure I’ve ever seen in my life

[thewrongjackpot]

The Update I Wish I Never Had to Make

Forewarning: Theatric cancer journey updates interwoven with general life thoughts/tangents making this long. Tl;dr at the end if you’d like to skip to it. 

*Cue Eminem’s “Without Me” intro* “Guess who’s back, back again…”

We all knew relapse was a possibility, and two days after my four-year, follow-up MRI and CT scans, it became my reality. A shattering reality, but mine nonetheless. My CT scan showed two masses in my chest–one 9x7x5 cm and another 3x3x1.5 cm–which was originally questionable but confirmed in a later scan. While my MRI revealed activity in my original tumor site in the left side of my jaw and another new site, in the right side of my jaw. 

I went into this follow-up appointment in good spirits as, not less than 24 hours prior, I had submitted the last of my assignments for my master’s program. I thought I was finally done with that mental chokehold and was finally free. Finally free to start crossing off items on my laundry lists of neglected tasks around the house. Finally free to start deep diving into new creative projects and hobbies. Finally free to build the lego sets and puzzles I’ve been acquiring for the past few years. Heck, finally free to create spreadsheets to collect data on random areas of my life just for *funsies*. 

I was excited to catch up with my oncologist because I’m always updating her when we meet on what’s going on in my personal life, sharing pictures of the dogs, and she’ll fill me in on some of what she’s got going on as well. I was excited because for the past three years my scans have been stable, and I had been feeling/felt perfectly fine during this past year. So, why should I be worried, right? WRONG. 

I couldn’t have been more wrong. Minutes into the appointment she cuts to the point: my scans looked concerning, and she didn’t have good news. She, then, asked if we wanted to get my husband on the phone to hear this initial information offload. She discussed the initial findings from the scans, which at the time, did not explicitly include the smaller mass in my chest.

Much of this appointment was a blur. I felt as though I had the rug pulled out from under me, wind knocked out of my chest, and was punched in the gut all at the same time. None of this seemed real. I was waiting to wake up from this nightmare and escape from the depths I’ve seemingly been pulled into once again …because… I couldn’t simply believe this was true. But it was and is true. It was right there staring at us in the face; images lit up with these white areas in my chest and, once again, in familiar and foreign places in my head.

We went on to discuss some next steps like getting a PET scan and biopsy which all happened within that same week. The PET scan revealed the smaller mass in my chest. Both chest masses are on the outside of my right lung in the pleura–the membrane that surrounds the lungs (I had to look that up). The larger one exists in the upper front part of my lung and the smaller on the back side of my lung, closer to my spine. The biopsy was conducted this past Friday, as of the time I’m writing this. They biopsied the larger chest mass as opposed to doing a biopsy at the original tumor site due to the area being more complicated from past treatments and surgery. I stayed awake during it, and that was a pretty gnarly experience. I was sedated and numbed, but it still felt like a crazy experience. 

Today, Tuesday, 6/10, my doctor called me with the pathology results confirming that it’s the same Rhabdomyosarcoma (and subtype) as before, as opposed to a secondary cancer due to radiation. Frankly, a different type of cancer probably would have been better news, but I was more so expecting for it to be rhabdo again. I’ll be following up with my doctor on Friday in more detail about treatment options and next steps. 

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Overall, how am I taking this news? *Again, asked no one* Not great, but at the same time, I feel like my initial reactions could have been much worse. I haven’t cried or broken down as much as I would have expected– as if there’s some set expectation for how one’s supposed to handle this type of news. There’s been a few breakdowns here and there, and they’ll randomly come about. Maybe I’m still in shock? Maybe I’m more mentally prepared going into it? Maybe some of my husband’s optimism is finally rubbing off after knowing each other for more than a decade? A part of me almost feels numb but is saying, “Come on, let’s get on and get this all over with already”--not in a “I’m trying to die” way but in a “let’s hurry up and beat this” way. I want to be done with this part of my life and be able to move on to the regularly scheduled programming. I want to “skip to the good part” *cue AJR’s “The Good Part”*, but it’s also hard to not acknowledge that I may not make it to that “good part”. That’s obviously the part that scares me; not death itself but more so in thinking about what and who I’d be leaving behind. Two phrases I’ve been saying/telling myself are one, “the odds aren’t zero”, and two, “brace for the worst [outcomes] but live for the best [outcomes]”. They’ve generally kept me forward-looking with a realistic dose of optimism. I’m/we’re just taking everything in stride because how else are we supposed to?

I find it kind of unexpected that I’m not particularly angry at the situation either. Again, assuming there’s some appropriate response to all of this. It may be all the therapy I’ve had for the past few years, and it may also be that I don’t see the utility of being angry at the circumstances. In part, I understand there’s nothing in my control that could have prevented this trajectory, and I have accepted the reality–radical acceptance as my therapist would name it. By no means is any of this fair, but that’s life. It’s imperfect, ever-changing, and unpredictable. It happens all the time. You just never think it’ll happen to you. 

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I strongly recommend not reading any articles about Rhabdomyosarcoma relapse, but if you’re like me and foolishly did–it’s not great, especially with metastasis. It sucks. It all really, really sucks, for lack of a better word. 

There’s this illogical part of me that’s saying I’m somehow being punished for getting too comfortable and confident about the future–that the universe is trying to humble and remind me that life is however long it dictates. No matter how hopeful we are about the future, how much we plan, it all can be taken away at a moment’s notice. Despite us knowing that to be true, for many, instant, sudden, or early death (whatever you want to call it) is not constantly on the average person’s mind. The general population doesn’t have to live with a visible, potential door to their grave. 

We take time for granted because unless you’ve had your time threatened or had this realization through whatever means, why wouldn’t you think you have all the time in the world? Why wouldn’t you plan your future/set goals? I think life would be miserable if you didn’t have something to look forward to. 

During the three going on, what would have been, four years with stable scans/no evidence of disease, I had just started to get comfortable with planning for the future. Much of the anxiety around scans went away, partly due to it only being once a year now. I was fine making plans years down the road because I assumed I/we would have them. I was excited for what my/our future would bring. Life has generally started to feel normal in this ‘new normal’ I’ve been learning to navigate. 

One of the more difficult pieces to tackle amongst the news is that we were also actively family planning. Maybe it was a weird blessing in disguise, but prior to this set of scans, we had gone through our first round of IUI (intrauterine insemination) which turned out to be unsuccessful. It took a lot of mental and emotional work for me to push my cancer recurrence anxiety to the side for us to pursue more calculated steps toward family planning. We had the intention to go through another round of IUI, and if it wasn’t successful, IVF. We waited until I was closer to three years out of treatment to take steps toward this journey (I could go into a whole other rabbit hole on just this piece alone). It feels defeating because all of that work and progress for what? Because here we are, and my biggest fear regarding family planning has come to life. 

I was already tired of all the new challenges I’ve had to circumvent over the past few years regarding aftereffects of treatment, and I’m all for doing whatever I have to do. However, now, we/I have to do it all over again but on extra hard mode. We have to put life on pause …again, for who knows how long and put all our hope, wishes, prayers, faith, etc. into believing we’ll be able to resume. Because what’s life worth living if you have nothing to live and look forward to, right?

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P.S. Please don’t come at me like I’m on my deathbed. I’m still here in the same way I was weeks and months ago. 

tl;dr Cancer’s back with a vengeance, and it decided to go for a joyride around my chest. It sucks, but it’s life. The odds aren’t zero, and we’re going to keep pushing and moving forward. 

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

sarcoma

[pinkycakes]

RIP Technoblade-perhaps the greatest Minecraft player to have ever played. Though he can't be with us, his legacy will continue on. His content will keep impacting and inspiring each and every day.

Fly high, Technoblade-thank you for being an inspiration to all of us through your work.

[indogenmed-org]

Sarcoma, often called the "forgotten cancer," affects the body's connective tissues like bones and soft tissues. Despite being rare, it's important to spread awareness and support those affected. Soft tissue sarcomas, the most common type, can appear in muscles, fat, blood vessels, and more. Early detection is crucial, so watch for painless lumps that may grow and become painful. Together, let's bring attention to this often overlooked cancer and support those on their journey.

[sheherrecords]

SARCOMA – KAAMOS [Official Album Teaser | Out May 29, 2025 on She/Her]

She/Her Records and SARCOMA present KAAMOS, the artist’s second full-length album, arriving May 29, 2025. KAAMOS marks a stark evolution in SARCOMA’s sound — descending into the bleak terrain of death industrial and classic power electronics, and leaving behind the EBM pulse that defined her earlier work.

Written and recorded during the depths of winter 2025, KAAMOS is a raw, unflinching reflection on SARCOMA’s time in Finland, limerence, borderline personality disorder, and the isolating weight of dysphoria. Saturated with dense textures, haunting samples, and a visceral emotional core, the album is described by the artist as “a breakup with her EBM phase.”

Following her contribution to TDoV Compilation 1, KAAMOS marks SARCOMA’s first solo release on She/Her Records.

KAAMOS was written and recorded by a troubled and complicated lesbian. Expect nothing less than brutal honesty and uncompromising noise.

Pre-order //

[falloutbradreviews]

Alluvial - Death Is But A Door

As a huge music fan, I try to keep my ear to the ground and see what kinds of bands and artists are on the come up, or what’s been getting a lot of hype, because I want to be on top of any band or artist getting a lot of praise and buzz in any particular scene, especially the heavy metal scene. I’ve been a metalhead for the last decade now, and I tend to keep up with what’s popular and what bands are getting buzz, but one band that apparently has been getting a lot of buzz for the past few years is progressive and technical death metal / deathcore band Alluvial. This band began from a former guitarist of The Faceless, and it also began as an instrumental act, but their second album, 2021’s Sarcoma, brought on board a vocalist, more specifically a former vocalist of Suffocation. I’ve listened to Sarcoma a few times, and that record is a really unique slice of death metal that encompasses a lot of different sub genres of metal. They just dropped a new EP, entitled Death Is But A Door, and I was really curious about this, so before I listened to Sarcoma, I thought this would be a good introduction to this band, as a lot of EPs typically are. They’re a 15 to 20-minute introduction, so if you’re not into it, you don’t feel as though you spent much time with it. If you do love it, however, and it has some good replay value, it’s short enough to revisit over and over again.

So where does this EP fall? Well, it falls into the latter, thankfully, as this EP merely continues what the band did with Sarcoma, but this was my introduction to them, and I was blown away. This is a four-song EP that shows what the band can do, especially if you want a short little introduction to these guys, you got it. The first three songs are death metal bruisers that will get you head banging in no time, as they combine deathcore, djent, progressive death metal, and technical death metal into a ferocious package. Both the instrumentation and vocals are top notch, and they showcase every member, not just one or two. This is the kind of band where each member gets their time to shine, not just the vocalist or the guitarist.

The last track, which is the title track, is where things slightly deviate from what we’ve heard in the prior three songs, but not by much. This song is a bit slower and more melodic, as there are clean vocals on this song, which sort of threw me for a loop, but Sarcoma features more clean vocals. If you’re not familiar with this band, the clean vocals may put you off a bit, but they’re fine. They’re more in the hard-rock style of clean vocals, but they’re still good. They provide some contrast, especially with this song being slower and more ballad-esque, but I could see someone not being into this song. I enjoy it, but it does kind of halt the momentum of the EP, because it kind of stops it almost. Not quite, but it does bring it down a bit.

That’s kind of a minute issue, as it still rules, and this EP is great from front to back. It’s only 17 minutes, but it’s a barrage of heaviness for that time. It keeps you wanting more and wanting to go back to it time and time again. I’ve been playing it a lot this past week, since I found it, and it’s great. I don’t know if it’s a standalone EP or if it’s a teaser to a new record, and if it’s the latter, that would be awesome. Their last album came out three years ago, so it would be cool to hear another new album from these guys. I don’t know how they escaped my attention, but I’m glad they put this out, so I can properly hear of them, because this is some of the most interesting and unique death metal I’ve heard in a long while, so hopefully these guys stay on that path, because they’re on their way to becoming one of death metal’s buzziest bands, and this EP is a perfect example why.