This cancer is aggressive, hard to treat and usually recurs; this is why Angiosarcoma prognosis can be very bad. Unfortunately, the symptoms can be too vague or it appears late that there is a delay in diagnosis. The earlier the angiosarcoma is diagnosed and the faster the treatment is begun the better the prognosis. Factors that affect prognosis include:

  • tumor size
  • treatment
  • site of primary cancer
  • extent the cancer has spread

The size of the tumor can affect the angiosarcoma prognosis, as it is easier to get a clearer margin around a smaller tumor. It is difficult to get a completely clear or negative margin at the microscopic level as this tumor can have numerous and irregular vascular channels not easily detected at the cellular level. This is because there is often a need to frequent surgical removal. Surgical resection combined with radiotherapy may offer a person a better prognosis if it can be done aggressively at an early stage of tumor development. Once the cancer has spread to various other sites, the prognosis is usually not good.

Cutaneous angiosarcoma is well-known and it has the most desirable angiosarcoma prognosis. Many times it is caught at an early stage and surgical removal with radiation helps the survival rate of more than five years. To help the prognosis of angiosarcoma of the and the scalp, an angiogenesis inhibitor called Paclitaxel is used.

Liver angiosarcoma has a very poor prognosis. Liver angiosarcoma is often asymtomatic until a later stage of the disease. Treatment is difficult because it usually spreads to other parts of the liver and body. Not too many people respond well to chemotherapy. The majority of cases has a fast progressive clinical course. Survival rate is usually 6 months to 2 years.

A high count of mitotic can mean there are rapidly dividing cells present. Normal tissue does not have as much mitotic activity than cancerous tissue does. Angiosarcoma prognosis normally is bad if the count is high because that signals the cancer is spreading fast. Cell replication is not controlled well like most types of cancer, but its connection to the circulatory system poses a threat the a person’s health. It spreads easily through the blood system to other body parts.

Angiosarcoma prognosis is better when the cancer is limited to a primary site with an aggressive use of surgical resection with radiotherapy. New research and more sophisticated use of radiotherapy, surgical resection, and chemotherapy are increasing the survival rate of this disease.

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