Prostate cancer can affect different cell types within your prostate. The type of cell affected gives a cancer its specific name. Adenocarcinoma, cancer of the glandular cells of the prostate, is by far the most common type of prostate cancer. The...
Colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer in both men and women in the United States, according to the National Cancer Society. Colorectal cancer refers to the cancer that begins in the colon or rectum, both of which are located in the...
Bone cancer is a type of cancer in which normal bone (or bone-associated) cells undergo a change and become cancerous. Bone cancer is quite rare; however, cancer that starts in the bone does occur. There are three main types of bone cancer:...
Testicular cancer is a rare but potentially serious problem that may develop in one or both of a man's testicles. Fortunately, testicular cancer is highly treatable and curable. According to the American Cancer Society, about 90 percent of...
Each year, liver cancer is diagnosed in approximately 21,000 people in the United States, with over 70 percent of cases affecting men, according to the National Cancer Institute. The liver removes harmful substances from the body and produces...
The kidneys are organs designed to filter the blood, and are made up of a number of highly specialized cell types. Cell growth in the kidney is tightly controlled, and defects in cell growth lead to diseases such as cancer. Cancer is the...
Breast cancer forms in the tissues of the breast, usually in the ducts or glands that produce or carry the milk to the nipples. According to the National Cancer Institute, more than 192,000 new cases were diagnosed in 2009. Treatment is available...
Leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma are all types of blood cancer, where abnormal cells reproduce, leading to very high numbers of abnormal clones. Leukemia can be acute or chronic. Acute leukemia rapidly advances with its high number of...
The National Cancer Institute estimates that in 2009, there were 21,550 new diagnoses of ovarian cancer in the United States. Epithelial ovarian cancers begin in the cells that are on the surface of the ovaries. These cancers comprise most of the...
Of the different types of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma is the most common. According to the American Cancer Society, about eight in every 10 skin cancers are of the basal type. These cancers usually develop on areas of the skin that are...
The prostate is a part of the male reproductive system, located below the bladder. The prostate contributes to hormone balances within the body and secretes prostate fluid, which makes up part of semen. Prostate cancer develops when prostate cells...
For many women, breast cancer is a dreaded diagnosis. One in eight women will be diagnosed with this disease, according to the National Institutes of Health. Breast cancer can be categorized into different types: type 1 is early in the cancer...
Breast cancer afflicts mainly women, and when caught early, it is treatable. However, once breast cancer progresses past type 1, treatment gets harder. Type 4 breast cancer is the most advanced form. By the time the cancer has advanced to type 4,...
Merck Manuals, an online medical library, reports that 213,000 women were diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States in 2006. Breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer, and the second leading cause of death due to cancer. There...
According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis in women other than skin cancer. The breast is composed of various different tissue components, resulting in a variety of potential histopathological types...
Testicular cancer occurs in men, typically around the age of 30 when normal cells in the testis change and become tumorigenic. The majority of testicular tumors originate from germ cells. While most testicular tumors respond favorably to radiation...
When a woman receives a breast cancer diagnosis, a variety of treatment options are available to her. Surgery is typically the first treatment doctors turn to, and many types of surgery exist. The type of surgery the doctor performs depends on the...
A brain tumor is a group of malignant cells that are abnormally dividing and are not able to be controlled. Brain tumors are classified by the kind of cell from which they arise and their behavior pattern, and some are graded on how malignant or...
Our bodies grow and develop as cells divide and then eventually die. Our bodies are nothing more than a collection of these different types of cells. According to the American Cancer Society, cancer is the abnormal growth of cells and cancer cells...
Cancer treatment depends on the cancer type, stage, location and the general health of the patient. Cancer treatment modalities include chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, bone marrow transplants and laser surgery. The combination of two or more...
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer both in women and men, reports the American Cancer Society. Lung cancer accounts for 15 percent of all new cancers. The three most common types of lung cancer are squamous cell carcinoma of the lung,...
The American Cancer Society states that the term "brain cancer" is not used as often as "brain tumor." Even though some brain tumors are not cancerous, they can still grow and cause damage to the brain and other problems throughout the body. When...
According to the National Cancer Institute, 11,000 women are diagnosed with cancer of the cervix every year and most commonly occurs in women younger than 55 years of age. Cervical cancer involves the transformation of the cells of the cervix,...
Brain cancer is a serious form of cancer that can interfere with normal brain function. The exact cause of brain cancer is not known, though different types of brain cancer form on the various parts of the brain, structures and tissue. The biggest...
The American Cancer Society describes the prostate as a walnut-shaped gland that is located underneath the bladder and in front of the rectum in men. Prostate cancer occurs when cells of the prostate transform into cells that grow uncontrollably...
Primary heart cancer is exceedingly rare. The incidence of all heart tumors is only 0.28 percent with only 23 percent of those tumors being malignant cancers, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Benign tumors are...
Kidney cancer is a very lethal form of cancer. The National Cancer Institute reported that 49,096 Americans were diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2009, and 11,033 people died from the disease that year. There are many forms of kidney cancer. Each...
Skin cancer is diagnosed in about one million people in the U.S. each year, according to the National Cancer Institute. The skin has two layers, the epidermis and the dermis. The epidermis is the topmost layer, and consists of squamous cells,...
Cancer is a group of abnormal cells that divide and grow rapidly. Rather than dying, as normal cells do, the abnormal cells group together and form tumors, according to FamilyDoctor.org. While there a number of different cancers, some are more...
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