What is cardiac angiosarcoma? The rare cancer that took Virgil Abloh's life

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According to a statement released on his Instagram account, Abloh was diagnosed with the rare cancer in 2019 and underwent a number of treatments before he died. Here's what to know.

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, a noted designer and artistic director of men’s fashion at Louis Vuitton, died at 41 in Chicago after a two-year battle with cardiac angiosarcoma., cardiac angiosarcoma is a rare form of cancer that causes cells inside the blood vessels of the heart to multiply and form tumors.

Angiosarcomas are a kind of sarcoma that specifically afflict cells that line blood vessels, and cardiac angiosarcomas are angiosarcomas that occur within or around the heart. Angiosarcomas are aggressive and can also spread, or metastasise, to other parts of the body, including the lungs, liver and bone marrow, Dr Maki said.Cardiac angiosarcomas are extremely rare. Of the 17,000 or fewer people in the United States who are diagnosed with sarcomas each year, up to 700 are diagnosed with angiosarcomas, and then only 30 to 40 of those have cardiac angiosarcomas, Dr Maki said.in dogs, especially retrievers, Dr Maki added, where they often afflict the spleen.

But while many people experience shortness of breath and fatigue, only a very small portion of people with these symptoms have cardiac angiosarcoma.

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