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ORPHA:99970

Dedifferentiated liposarcoma

low confidenceSubtype of disorder

Also known as: DDLS

Publications

4,016

Trials

36

Interventional, condition-specific

Researchers

1,447

Distinct authors in sample

Gene link

—

Readiness

2/6

Stages with a signal

Clinical definition (Orphanet)

Dedifferentiated liposarcoma (DDLS) is a high-grade subtype of liposarcoma (LS) that progresses from well-differentiated liposarcoma (WDLS), and most often occurs in the retroperitoneum. It is defined as a region of nonlipogenic sarcoma associated with WDLS. .

How rare: How common this is has not been clearly measured.

Orphanet entry

Cross-references

Joined from Mondo / Orphanet. MeSH labels may enter searches; UMLS / OMIM / NCIT are stored for reference.

Additional Mondo synonyms (2)

DDLPS · dedifferentiated liposarcoma

Research stages

Trial readiness signals

Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”

2/6 stages with a signal

An interventional trial matched this condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov — see trials below.

  1. Gene identifiedNot found

    No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build

  2. LiteraturePresent

    4,016 matched papers (3,102 in last 10 years) Source

  3. Phenotype characterisedNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / HPO

  4. Animal modelNot checked

    Not yet enriched from Monarch / Alliance

  5. Orphan designationNot checked

    FDA/EMA orphan-drug designation not enriched yet

  6. Interventional trialPresent

    36 matched on ClinicalTrials.gov (11 recruiting in sample)

Biology

Genes and phenotypes

Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.

Do we know what causes it?

Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.

No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.

Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)

Not enriched in this build — Monarch phenotype joins were not run for this record.

Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)

Not enriched in this build.

Literature

Is anyone studying this?

4,016

4,016 papers have been published on this condition. That is a real research literature — still far smaller than common diseases (breast cancer: over 700,000 papers). Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=5449) is 41.

4,016 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 41 (publications denominator n=5449).

3,102 in the last 10 years · low confidence

Phrase hits: 4,016 · MeSH hits: 0

Open Europe PMC search

Who's working on it?

1,447

Distinct author names in 200 sampled papers — named people below.

Who's working on it?

People publishing on this condition (sampled Europe PMC records). Affiliation is the most recent found in that sample.

  1. 01
    Ichikawa J8 papers · 2026

    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  2. 02
    Kawasaki T8 papers · 2026

    Department of Pathology, Saitama Medical Center, Saitama Medical University, Kawagoe, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  3. 03
    Wako M8 papers · 2026

    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  4. 04
    Wang Y8 papers · 2026

    Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610213, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  5. 05
    Onohara K7 papers · 2025

    Department of Radiology, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  6. 06
    Wang X6 papers · 2026

    Department of Joint Surgery, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistic Support Force of Chinese People's Liberation Army, Lanzhou, Gansu 730050, P.R. China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  7. 07
    Li W5 papers · 2026

    Department of Retroperitoneal Tumor and Anorectal Surgery, Peking University International Hospital Beijing 100044, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  8. 08
    Li Y5 papers · 2026

    Department of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  9. 09
    Liu J5 papers · 2026

    Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

    Papers in Europe PMC
  10. 10
    Ochiai S5 papers · 2025

    Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National Hospital Organization (NHO) Kofu National Hospital, Kofu, Japan.

    Papers in Europe PMC

Clinical research

Is a treatment being tested?

36

interventional trials for this specific condition

36 interventional trials matched this specific condition name; 11 currently recruiting in our sample. 98 trials are registered for liposarcoma, the broader category — shown separately because they may or may not enrol this specific subtype.

Data as of 27 July 2026

36 interventional trials — more than 73% of diseases in the trials denominator have none at all (5114 of 7003; this disease is at the 96.1th percentile).

low confidence · 96.1th percentile (trials denominator)

Recruiting interventional trials

From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set

36 interventional trials matched after quoted-phrase search and title/condition post-filter.

Broader category: liposarcoma

98

Interventional trials for the parent category, exclusive of NCT IDs already counted above. Eligibility for this subtype is not guaranteed.

Worth raising with a clinician. How we count trials.

Recruiting under the broader category

Observational and natural-history studies

1 observational study matches this condition. These do not test a treatment and are not counted in the interventional-trial headline, but they are genuine research: natural-history work often defines the endpoints needed for a future rare-disease trial, and families may be able to enroll.

None of the matched observational studies is currently listed as recruiting.

Open the complete matched search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Where to find support

We do not yet link condition-specific patient organisations. These umbrella groups support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families:

India — NPRD

Last verified 2026-07-26

This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.

Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.

How we counted this

Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.

"Dedifferentiated liposarcoma" OR "DDLPS"

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ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):

"Dedifferentiated liposarcoma" OR "DDLPS"

Interventional trials matched via: phrase (mesh = registered under a MeSH descriptor no name phrase would catch; recall-expansion = gene / selected parent terms used only for trials).

Study-type breakdown: 36 interventional · 1 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.

Parent-category trials query:

"liposarcoma"

Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase

Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov

Synonyms dropped by stoplist: DDLS

Confidence reasoning

  • Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
  • 1 synonym(s) dropped by stoplist (may under-count)
  • No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
  • Publication count (4016) is extremely high with unknown/missing prevalence — treat as possible over-matching, not proven research intensity

Ingested 2026-07-27T06:48:28.785Z