Types of Cancer

There are over a hundred different types of cancer diagnosed each year, affecting different parts of the body.

Types of Cancer Affecting the Bones

• Ewing's Sarcoma
  
• Osteosarcoma

Types of Cancer Affecting the Brain

• Adult Brain Tumor
  
• Brain Stem Glioma, Childhood
  
• Cerebellar Astrocytoma, Childhood
  
• Cerebral Astrocytoma/Malignant Glioma, Childhood
  
• Ependymoma, Childhood
  
• Medulloblastoma, Childhood
  
• Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors and Pineoblastoma, Childhood
  
• Visual Pathway and Hypothalamic Glioma, Childhood
  

Types of Cancer Affecting the Breast

• Breast Cancer
  
• Male Breast Cancer

Types of Cancer Affeccting the Digestive/Gastrointestinal System

• Anal Cancer
  
• Bile Duct Cancer, Extrahepatic
  
• Carcinoid Tumor, Gastrointestinal
  
• Colon Cancer
  
• Esophageal Cancer
  
• Gallbladder Cancer
  
• Liver Cancer, Adult Primary
  
• Liver Cancer, Childhood[
  
• Pancreatic Cancer
  
• Rectal Cancer
  
• Small Intestine Cancer
  
• Stomach (Gastric) Cancer
  

Types of Cancer Affecting the Endocrine System

• Adrenocortical Carcinoma
  
• Carcinoid Tumor, Gastrointestinal
  
• Islet Cell Carcinoma (Endocrine Pancreas)
  
• Parathyroid Cancer
  
• Pheochromocytoma
  
• Pituitary Tumor
  
• Thyroid Cancer

Types of Cancer Affecting the Eyes

• Melanoma, Intraocular
  
• Retinoblastoma

Genitourinary Cancers

• Bladder Cancer
  
• Kidney (Renal Cell) Cancer
  
• Penile Cancer
  
• Prostate Cancer
  
• Renal Pelvis and Ureter Cancer, Transitional Cell
  
• Testicular Cancer
  
• Urethral Cancer
  
• Wilms' Tumor and Other Childhood Kidney Tumors

Gynecologic Cancers

• Cervical Cancer
  
• Endometrial Cancer
  
• Gestational Trophoblastic Tumor
  
• Ovarian Epithelial Cancer
  
• Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor
  
• Ovarian Low Malignant Potential Tumor
  
• Uterine Sarcoma
  
• Vaginal Cancer
  
• Vulvar Cancer
  

Types of Cancer Affecting the Head and Neck

• Hypopharyngeal Cancer
  
• Laryngeal Cancer
  
• Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer
  
• Metastatic Squamous Neck Cancer with Occult Primary
  
• Nasopharyngeal Cancer
  
• Oropharyngeal Cancer
  
• Paranasal Sinus and Nasal Cavity Cancer
  
• Parathyroid Cancer
  
• Salivary Gland Cancer

Types of Cancer Affecting the Blood/Hematologic System

Leukemia

• Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Adult
  
• Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, Childhood
  
• Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Adult
  
• Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Childhood
  
• Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
  
• Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia
  
• Hairy Cell Leukemia

Lymphoma

• AIDS-Related Lymphoma
  
• Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma
  
• Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Adult
  
• Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Childhood
  
• Mycosis Fungoides
  
• Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Adult
  
• Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Childhood
  
• Primary Central Nervous System Lymphoma
  
• Sezary Syndrome
  
• T-Cell Lymphoma, Cutaneous
  
• Waldenström's Macroglobulinemia

Types of Cancer Affecting the lungs

• Non small cell lung cancer
  
• Small cell lung cancer

Cancer Affecting the Respiratory System

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• Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma

Cancer Affecting The Skin

• Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma
  
• Kaposi's Sarcoma
  
• Melanoma
  
• Merkel Cell Carcinoma
  
• Skin Cancer