Concept information
Preferred term
types of cancer
Definition
- Based on 2005 estimates from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry of the National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society, the most frequent types of cancer in men are (in descending order) prostate, lung, colorectal, bladder, melanoma, lymphoma, kidney, leukemia, mouth and pharynx, and pancreas. In woman, they are breast, lung, colorectal, uterine corpus, lymphoma, melanoma, ovary, thyroid, bladder, and pancreas. [Source: Encyclopedia of Health & Aging; Cancer, Common Types of]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- adrenocortical carcinoma
- adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- adult acute myeloid leukemia
- adult brain tumor
- adult carcinoma of unknown primary site
- adult glioma
- adult Hodgkin's lymphoma
- adult malignant mesothelioma
- adult non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- adult (primary) hepatocellular (liver) cancer
- adult (primary) liver cancer
- adult soft tissue sarcoma
- AIDS-related cancers
- AIDS-related lymphoma
- anal cancer
- bladder cancer
- bone cancer, osteosarcoma/malignant fibrous histiocytoma
- breast cancer
- breast cancer and pregnancy
- Burkitt's lymphoma
- carcinoma of unknown primary
- cervical cancer
- childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
- childhood acute myeloid leukemia
- childhood adrenocortical carcinoma
- childhood bladder cancer
- childhood brain stem glioma
- childhood cancer of unknown primary site
- childhood cancers
- childhood carcinoid tumor
- childhood cerebellar astrocytoma
- childhood cerebral astrocytoma
- childhood cerebral astrocytoma glioma
- childhood cerebral astrocytoma/malignant glioma
- childhood colorectal cancer
- childhood ependymoma
- childhood esophageal cancer
- childhood extracranial germ cell tumor
- childhood gastric cancer
- childhood Hodgkin's lymphoma
- childhood hypothalamic and visual pathway glioma
- childhood kidney cancer
- childhood laryngeal cancer
- childhood medulloblastoma
- childhood mesothelioma
- childhood multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome
- childhood nasopharyngeal cancer
- childhood non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- childhood oral cancer
- childhood ovarian cancer
- childhood pancreatic cancer
- childhood pineoblastoma and supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal
- childhood primary liver cancer
- childhood rhabdomyosarcoma
- childhood salivary gland cancer
- childhood skin cancer
- childhood soft tissue sarcoma
- childhood supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumors
- childhood thymoma
- childhood thyroid cancer
- childhood visual pathway and hypothalamic glioma
- chronic lymphocytic leukemia
- chronic myelogenous leukemia
- chronic myeloproliferative disorders
- colon cancer
- endometrial cancer
- endometrial uterine cancer
- esophageal cancer
- Ewing family of tumors
- ewing's family of tumors
- extragonadal germ cell tumor
- extrahepatic bile duct cancer
- gallbladder cancer
- gastrointestinal carcinoid tumor
- gestational trophoblastic tumor
- hairy cell leukemia
- head and neck cancer
- hodgkin's lymphoma during pregnancy
- hypopharyngeal cancer
- intraocular melanoma
- islet cell carcinoma
- Kaposi's sarcoma
- kidney cancer
- laryngeal cancer
- lip and oral cavity cancer
- male breast cancer
- malignant fibrous histiocytoma of bone/osteosarcoma
- melanoma
- merkel cell carcinoma
- merkel cell skin carcinoma
- metastatic squamous neck cancer with occult primary
- multiple myeloma/plasma cell neoplasm
- mycosis fungoides
- myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative diseases
- myelodysplastic syndromes
- nasal cavity and paranasal sinus cancer
- nasopharyngeal cancer
- neuroblastoma
- non-Hodgkin's during pregnancy lymphoma
- non-hodgkin's lymphoma during pregnancy
- non-small cell lung cancer
- oropharyngeal cancer
- osteosarcoma/malignant fibrous histiocytoma of bone
- ovarian epithelial cancer
- ovarian germ cell tumor
- ovarian low malignant potential tumor
- pancreatic cancer
- paranasal sinus and nasal cavity cancer
- parathyroid cancer
- penile cancer
- pheochromocytoma
- pituitary tumor
- plasma cell neoplasm/multiple myeloma
- pleuropulmonary blastoma
- pregnancy and breast cancer
- pregnancy and hodgkin's lymphoma
- pregnancy and non-hodgkin's lymphoma
- primary central nervous system lymphoma
- prostate cancer
- rectal cancer
- renal pelvis and ureter, transitional cell cancer
- retinoblastoma
- retinoblastoma eye cancer
- salivary gland cancer
- Sezary syndrome
- skin cancer (melanoma)
- skin cancer (non-melanoma)
- small cell lung cancer
- small intestine cancer
- stomach cancer
- testicular cancer
- thymoma and thymic carcinoma
- thyroid cancer
- transitional cell cancer of the renal pelvis and ureter
- unusual cancers of childhood
- ureter and renal pelvis, transitional cell cancer
- urethral cancer
- uterine sarcoma
- vaginal cancer
- vulvar cancer
- Waldenström's macroglobulinemia
- Wilms' tumor
- women's cancers
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