Newman is a Derwood, Md., freelance science and medical writer. Soft Tissue Sarcomas is part of Rosen Publishing’s “Cancer and Modern Science” series for young adults. The book is designed to provide students (grades 7-12), parents, teachers, and healthcare providers with a lay-language, highly readable overview of soft tissue sarcomas. With a better understanding of the cancer, Newman and the publishers hope it will be easier for patients and their loved ones to first deal, and then ultimately, successfully live, with the disease. This book starts by explaining what soft tissues are, how cancer can develop in them, and why they occur. It then describes how soft-tissue sarcomas are diagnosed and treated. Finally, it takes a look at some of the state-of-the-art therapies being explored to keep improving a patient’s chance of survival and quality of life.