Awareness Month

Sarcoma Awareness Month

July 1 – 31, 2026 Recurs yearly

A medical clinic lobby where a diverse group of patients and healthcare professionals interact. In the foreground, a woman in a wheelchair wearing a yellow cardigan with a yellow awareness ribbon holds an informational brochure while smiling at a female healthcare worker in navy scrubs and a man sitting beside her. In the background, a bulletin board displays a yellow poster that reads "SARCOMA AWARENESS MONTH JULY 2026: LIVING WITH SARCOMA: YOU ARE NOT ALONE #SarcomaAwareness". Additional patients, doctors, and physical therapy equipment are visible in the bright room.

2026 Theme

You Are Not Alone

Campaign Representation

Officially represented by the Yellow Ribbon.

Campaign Description

Observed every July, Sarcoma Awareness Month highlights sarcoma, often called the "forgotten cancer", a group of over 100 rare cancer subtypes that begin in bones and soft tissue. It accounts for roughly 1% of adult cancers but 15–20% of pediatric cancers, making awareness, early detection, and research funding especially critical.

Theme Focus

“You Are Not Alone” centers the 2026 campaign on the real challenges faced by people living with sarcoma and their families. Sarcoma encompasses more than 100 rare cancer subtypes and can affect people of all ages. Its rarity and complexity can contribute to delayed diagnosis, difficulty finding appropriate specialist care, limited research opportunities and a profound sense of isolation.

The campaign therefore goes beyond simply increasing awareness of sarcoma. It emphasizes connection, shared lived experience, access to expertise, better care and collective advocacy—bringing together patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals, researchers and the public.

Key Priorities

  • Increase public understanding of sarcoma as a group of rare and complex cancers
  • Improve recognition of possible signs and symptoms
  • Reduce delays in diagnosis
  • Promote access to appropriate specialist and multidisciplinary care
  • Improve access to accurate, understandable information
  • Strengthen support for patients, caregivers and families
  • Reduce the isolation associated with having a rare cancer
  • Connect people affected by sarcoma with patient and advocacy communities
  • Increase awareness of the different sarcoma subtypes
  • Strengthen sarcoma research and clinical knowledge
  • Address inequalities in access to diagnosis, treatment and specialist expertise
  • Amplify patient and caregiver voices
  • Encourage collaboration among patients, healthcare professionals, researchers and advocacy organizations
  • Build stronger global sarcoma communities

Key Concepts

  • Sarcoma
  • Soft tissue sarcoma
  • Bone sarcoma
  • Rare cancer
  • Sarcoma subtypes
  • Osteosarcoma
  • Ewing sarcoma
  • Rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Gastrointestinal stromal tumor
  • Cancer awareness
  • Cancer research
  • Clinical trials
  • Patient advocacy
  • Lived experience
  • Cancer information
  • Cancer stigma

Campaign Resources & Support

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