Cancer can be chiefly divided into the following types.
Carcinoma:
Any cancer that arises in epithelium, the tissue that lines the skin and internal organs of the body, is called carcinoma cancer.
Sarcoma:
Any cancer of connective tissue is known as sarcoma cancer. These tumors may occur in any part of the body, as they arise in the tissues that make up an organ rather than being restricted to a particular organ. They can arise in fibrous tissue, muscle, fat, bone, cartilage, blood and lymphatic vessels, etc.
Leukaemia:
It is a cancer of the blood in which the bone marrow and other blood forming organs over-produce immature or abnormal white cells.
Lymphoma:
Any malignant tumor of lymph nodes or lymph gland is termed as lymphoma cancer.
Some cancers occur more often in children. The following table shows their type and the percentage of the total cancers in childhood.
Type % of Total Cancers
Leukaemia 30
Nervous system (Retinoblastoma) 12
Bone sarcoma 12
Soft tissue sarcoma 12
Neuroblastoma 10
Wilms’ (kidney) tumor 8
Lymphoma 8
Hodgkin’s disease 6
Others 2
Cancer is specifically divided into the following types.
- Prostate cancer
- Breast cancer
- Lung cancer
- Skin cance
- Colon cancer
- Mesothelioma cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Thyroid cancer
- Liver cancer
- Bone cancer
- Testicular cancer
- Stomach cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Esophageal cancer
- Throat cancer
- Brain cancer
- Kidney cancer
- Uterine cancer
- Mouth cancer
- Oral cancer
- Blood cancer
- Lymph node cancer
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