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What to know about alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma after Alex Duong’s death

The death of 19-year-old Alex Duong from alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma has drawn public attention to a rare and aggressive cancer that disproportionately affects children and young adults. Rhabdomyosarcoma is a soft tissue sarcoma that develops from cells of a mesenchymal or skeletal muscle lineage, and the alveolar subtype carries some of the worst survival odds in […]