Cancer (malignancy is synonymous) refers to neoplasms with malignant potential, i.e. for local invasion and metastasis. This article is a list of different cancers or relevant tumour classification systems, although noting that not all tumours are cancerous. For a list of cancer staging systems, see the separate article.
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Terminology
Cancer is often used synonymously with carcinoma, but this is erroneous as whilst all carcinomas are certainly cancers, many cancers are not carcinomas, e.g. lymphomas and sarcomas.
Neoplasms and tumours can be benign or malignant, and therefore should not be used as synonyms for cancer.
Central nervous system
Head and neck
Gastrointestinal tract
small intestine tumours
appendiceal cancer
liver cancer
gallbladder cancer
bile duct cancer
Cardiothoracic
Musculoskeletal
Skin
Breast
Gynaecology
Genitourinary
epididymal cancer
seminal vesicle cancer
ureteric tumours
adrenal cancer
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