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MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-BY-BODY-PART


Definition: general term used to refer to different forms of disease characterised by uncontrolled, abnormal growth of cells in the body that can spread to other parts in the body . The diagnosis of cancer usually depends upon the observation of abnormal microscopic features in biopsies, i.e. tissue removed surgically for such examination. Cancers are classified according to the type of cell from which they are derived as well as the organ of origin. For example, cancers arising within the bronchi, often collectively referred to as 'lung cancer', include both adenocarcinomas (derived from glandular epithelium) and squamous carcinomas (derived from squamous epithelium. Sarcomas are cancers of connective tissue, including bone and cartilage. The behaviour of cancers and their response to therapy vary widely depending on numerous other factors such as growth rate, differentiation in cell and characteristics and size at the time of presentation. Early diagnosis is important for the success of treatment.

Conceptual Structures
ISAMALIGNANT-NEOPLASM
SUBCLASSESABDOMINAL-CANCER
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BONE-CONNECTIVE-TISSUE-SKIN-AND-BREAST-
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-DIGESTIVE-ORGANS-AND-PERITONEUM
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-GENITOURINARY-ORGANS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LIP-ORAL-CAVITY-AND-PHARYNX
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LYMPHATIC-AND-HEMATOPOIETIC-TISSUE
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-SITES-
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-RESPIRATORY-AND-INTRATHORACIC-ORGANS-
DESCENDANTSABDOMINAL-CANCER
ACINAR-CELL-CARCINOMA
ACRAL-LENTIGINOUS-MELANOMA
ACUTE-ERYHTROLEUKEMIA
ACUTE-ERYTHREMIA-AND-ERYTHROLEUKEMIA
ACUTE-ERYTHREMIC-MYELOSIS
ACUTE-LEUKEMIA-NOS
ACUTE-LYMPHOID-LEUKEMIA
ACUTE-MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
ACUTE-MYELOID-LEUKEMIA
ACUTE-NONLYMPHOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
ACUTE-PROMYELOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
ACUTE-PROMYELOMONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
ADENOCARCINOMA-OF-THE-LUNG
ADENOID-CYSTIC-CARCINOMA
ADENOID-CYSTIC-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-BREAST
ADRENAL-CANCER
ADRENAL-MEDULLARY-TUMOR
ADRENOCORTICAL-CANCER
ADULT-HODGKINS-DISEASE
ADULT-NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA
ADULT-T-CELL-LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA
AGGRESSIVE-NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA
ALVEOLAR-CELL-LUNG-CANCER
ALVEOLAR-SOFT-PART-SARCOMA
ANAL-CANCER
ANAPLASTIC-ASTROCYTOMA
ANAPLASTIC-OLIGODENDROGLIOMA
ANAPLASTIC-THYROID-CARCINOMA
ANGIOSARCOMA
ASTROCYTOMA
B-CELL-ACUTE-LYMPHOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
BILE-DUCT-CANCER
BONE-CANCER
BRAIN-STEM-GLIOMA
BRAIN-TUMOR
BRONCHIOLALVEOLAR-LUNG-CANCER
BRONCHOGENIC-CARCINOMA
BURKITTS-LYMPHOMA
CHEEK-CANCER
CHILDHOOD-HODGKINS-DISEASE
CHILDHOOD-LEUKEMIA
CHILDHOOD-LIVER-CANCER
CHILDHOOD-NEPHROBLASTOMA
CHILDHOOD-NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA
CHILDHOOD-RHABDOMYOSARCOMA
CHLOROMA
CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
CHOLESTEATOMA
CHONDROSARCOMA
CHORDOMA
CHORIOCARCINOMA
CHRONIC-ERYTHREMIA
CHRONIC-LEUKEMIA-NOS
CHRONIC-LYMPHOID-LEUKEMIA
CHRONIC-MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
CHRONIC-MYELOID-LEUKEMIA
CLEAR-CELL-ADENOCARCINOMA-OF-THE-VAGINA
CLEAR-CELL-CYSTADENOCARCINOMA
CLOACOGENIC-CANCER
COLORECTAL-CANCER
COMEDOCARCINOMA
CONGENITAL-BRAIN-TUMOR
CONNECTIVE-TISSUE-CANCER
DI-GUGLIELMOS-DISEASE
DIFFUSE-LARGE-CELL-LYMPHOMA
DIFFUSE-STOMACH-CANCER
DUCTAL-BREAST-CARCINOMA
DUCTAL-BREAST-CARCINOMA-IN-SITU
DUODENAL-CARCINOMA
ENDOCRINE-CANCER
ENDOCRINE-PANCREATIC-CANCER
ENDOMETRIAL-CANCER
ENDOMETROID-ADENOCARCINOMA
ENDOTHELIOMA
EOSINOPHILIC-LEUKEMIA
EPENDYMAL-TUMOR
EPENDYMOBLASTOMA
EPIDERMOID-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-LUNG
EPITHELIAL-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-OVARY
ERYTHREMIC-MYELOSIS
ERYTHROLEUKEMIA
EWING'S-SARCOMA
EXOCRINE-PANCREATIC-CANCER
EXTRAHEPATIC-BILE-DUCT-CANCER
FALLOPIAN-TUBE-CANCER
FAMILIAL-MEDULLARY-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-THYROID
FELINE-LEUKEMIA
FIBROSARCOMA-OF-SOFT-TISSUE
FIBROSARCOMA-OF-THE-BONE
FIBROUS-HISTIOCYTOMA
FOLLICULAR-CELL-THYROID-CANCER
GALLBLADDER-CANCER
GASTRIC-CARCINOMA
GASTRINOMA
GASTROINTESTINALCARCINOID-TUMOR
GERM-CELL-TUMOR
GESTATIONAL-TROPHOBLASTIC-TUMOR
GLIOBLASTOMA-MULTIFORME
GLIOMA
GLOMUS-JUGULAR-TUMOR
GLUCAGONOMA
GRAWITZ-TUMOR
GYNECOLOGICAL-CANCER
HAIRY-CELL-LEUKEMIA
HEAVY-CHAIN-DISEASES
HEILMEYER-SCHNER-DISEASE
HEMANGIOBLASTOMA
HEMANGIOMA
HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA
HEMANGIOSARCOMA
HEPATOBLASTOMA
HEPATOCELLULAR-CARCINOMA
HEPATOMA
HISTIOCYTIC-NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA
HODGKIN'S-DISEASE
HODGKINS-DISEASE-LYMPHOCYTIC-DEPLETION
HODGKINS-DISEASE-NODULAR-SCLEROSIS
HODGKINS-GRANULOMA
HODGKINS-PARAGRANULOMA
HODGKINS-SARCOMA
HYDATIDIFORM-MOLE
HYPERNEPHROMA
INDOLENT-NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA
INFANTILE-HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA
INFILTRATING-DUCTAL-BREAST-CARCINOMA
INFILTRATING-LOBULAR-BREAST-CARCINOMA
INFLAMMATORY-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-BREAST
INSULINOMA
INTESTINAL-STOMACH-CANCER
INTRAOCULAR-MELANOMA
ISLET-CELL-CARCINOMA
JUXTACORTICAL-OSTEOSARCOMA
KAHLERS-DISEASE
KAPOSIS-SARCOMA
KRUKENBERG-TUMOR
LACRIMAL-GLAND-TUMOR
LARGE-CELL-CARCINOMA
LEIOMYOSARCOMA
LENTIGO-MALIGNA-MELANOMA
LEPTOMENINGEAL-CARCINOMA
LETTERER-SIWE-DISEASE
LEUKEMIA-OF-UNSPECIFIED-CELL-TYPE
LIPOSARCOMA
LIVER-METASTASES
LOBULAR-BREAST-CARCINOMA
LOBULAR-CARCINOMA-IN-SITU
LOW-GRADE-LYMPHOMA
LYMPHANGIOSARCOMA
LYMPHOBLASTIC-NON-HODGKIN'S-LYMPHOMA
LYMPHOCYTIC-HISTIOCYTIC-PREDOMINANCE
LYMPHOCYTIC-LYMPHOMA
LYMPHOID-LEUKEMIA
LYMPHOMA
LYMPHOSARCOMA-CELL-LEUKEMIA
MALE-REPRODUCTIVE-CANCER
MALIGNANT-GIANT-CELL-TUMOR
MALIGNANT-HISTIOCYTOSIS
MALIGNANT-MAST-CELL-TUMOR
MALIGNANT-MELANOMA-OF-SKIN
MALIGNANT-MESENCHYMOMA
MALIGNANT-MESOTHELIOMA
MALIGNANT-MIXED-MULLERIAN-TUMOR
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BLADDER
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BODY-OF-UTERUS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BONE-AND-ARTICULAR-CARTILAGE
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BONE-CONNECTIVE-TISSUE-SKIN-AND-BREAST-
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BRAIN
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-CERVIX-UTERI
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-COLON
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-CONNECTIVE-AND-OTHER-SOFT-TISSUE
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-DIGESTIVE-ORGANS-AND-PERITONEUM
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-ESOPHAGUS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-EYE
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-FEMALE-BREAST
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-FLOOR-OF-MOUTH
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-GALLBLADDER-AND-EXTRAHEPATIC-BILE-DUCTS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-GASTROINTESTINAL-TRACT
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-GENITOURINARY-ORGANS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-GUM
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-HYPOPHARYNX
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-KIDNEY
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-KIDNEY-AND-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-URINARY-ORGANS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LARYNX
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LIP
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LIP-ORAL-CAVITY-AND-PHARYNX
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LIVER-AND-INTRAHEPATIC-BILE-DUCTS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LYMPHATIC-AND-HEMATOPOIETIC-TISSUE
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-MAJOR-SALIVARY-GLANDS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-MALE-BREAST
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-NASAL-CAVITIES-MIDDLE-EAR-AND-ACCESSORY-SINUSES
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-NASAL-CAVITY
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-NASOPHARYNX
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-NERVOUS-SYSTEM
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-ORAL-CAVITY
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OROPHARYNX
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-ILL-DEFINED-SITES
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-ILL-DEFINED-SITES-WITHIN-THE-LIP-ORAL-CAVITY-AND-PHARYNX
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-ILL-DEFINED-SITES-WITHIN-THE-RESPIRATORY-SYSTEM-AND-INTRATHORACIC-OR
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-FEMALE-GENITAL-ORGANS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-PARTS-OF-MOUTH
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-PARTS-OF-NERVOUS-SYSTEM
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-SITES-
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-DIGESTIVE
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-ENDOCRINE-GLANDS-AND-RELATED-STRUCTURES
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OVARY-AND-OTHER-UTERINE-ADNEXA
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PANCREAS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PENIS-AND-OTHER-MALE-GENITAL-ORGANS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PHARYNX
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PLACENTA
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PLEURA
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PROSTATE
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-RECTUM-RECTOSIGMOID-JUNCTION-AND-ANUS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-RESPIRATORY-AND-INTRATHORACIC-ORGANS-
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-RETROPERITONEUM-AND-PERITONEUM
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-SALIVARY-GLANDS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-SKIN
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-SMALL-INTESTINE-INCLUDING-DUODENUM
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-STOMACH
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-TESTIS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-THYMUS-HEART-AND-MEDIASTINUM
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-THYROID-GLAND
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-TONGUE
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-TRACHEA-BRONCHUS-AND-LUNG
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-UTERUS
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-UTERUS-PART-UNSPECIFIED
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-WITHOUT-SPECIFICATION-OF-SITE
MALIGNANT-PITUITARY-TUMOR
MALIGNANT-TERATOMA
MEDULLARY-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-BREAST
MEDULLARY-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-THYROID
MEDULLOBLASTOMA
MEGAKARYOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
MEGAKARYOCYTIC-MYELOSIS
MENINGEAL-CARCINOMATOSIS
MERKEL-CELL-TUMOR-OF-SKIN
METASTATIC-BRAIN-TUMOR
MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
MUCINOUS-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-BREAST
MUCINOUS-CYSTADENOCARCINOMA
MULLERIAN-TUMOR
MULTIFOCAL-OSTEOSARCOMA
MULTIPLE-ENDOCRINE-NEOPLASIA
MULTIPLE-MYELOMA
MULTIPLE-MYELOMA-AND-IMMUNOPROLIFERATIVE-NEOPLASMS
MYCOSIS-FUNGOIDES
MYELOBLASTIC-LEUKEMIA
MYELOID-LEUKEMIA
MYELOID-SARCOMA
MYELOMA
NEUTROPHILIC-LEUKEMIA
NODULAR-LYMPHOMA
NODULAR-MELANOMA
NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA
NON-SMALL-CELL-LUNG-CANCER
NONSEMINOMA
NULL-CELL-ACUTE-LYMPHOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
OLIGODENDROGLIA
OLIGODENDROGLIOMA
OSTEOSARCOMA
OTHER-MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-SKIN
OTHER-MALIGNANT-NEOPLASMS-OF-LYMPHOID-AND-HISTIOCYTIC-TISSUE
OTHER-SPECIFIED-LEUKEMIA
OVARIAN-CANCER
OVARIAN-GERM-CELL-TUMOR
PAGET'S-DISEASE-OF-THE-BREAST
PANCOAST-TUMOR
PAPILLARY-CANCER-OF-THE-BLADDER
PARANASAL-SINUS-CANCER
PARATHYROID-GLAND-CANCER
PAROTID-GLAND-CANCER
PENILE-CANCER
PERIPHERAL-NEUROEPITHELIOMA
PERITONEAL-CAVITY-CANCER
PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA
PINEAL-GLAND-TUMOR
PLASMA-CELL-LEUKEMIA
PLASMA-CELL-TUMOR
PLASMACYTOMA
PLEOMORPHIC-LYMPHOMA
PROLYMPHOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
RETINOBLASTOMA
RHABDOMYOSARCOMA
SARCOMA
SCROTUM-CANCER
SECONDARY-AND-UNSPECIFIED-MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LYMPH-NODES
SECONDARY-LIVER-CANCER
SECONDARY-MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-SPECIFIED-SITES
SECONDARY-MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-RESPIRATORY-AND-DIGESTIVE-SYSTEMS
SEMINOMA
SEROUS-CYSTADENOCARCINOMA
SERTOLI-LYDIG-TUMOR
SEZARY-SYNDROME
SMALL-CELL-LUNG-CANCER
SMALL-INTESTINE-CANCER
SOFT-PALATE-CANCER
SOFT-TISSUE-OSTEOSARCOMA
SOFT-TISSUE-SARCOMA
SOFT-TISSUE-SARCOMA-ADULT
SOFT-TISSUE-SARCOMA-CHILDHOOD
SPLEEN-CANCER
SPORADIC-MEDULLARY-CANCER
SQUAMOUS-CELL-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-SKIN
SQUAMOUS-CELL-LUNG-CANCER
STROMAL-TUMOR
SUBACUTE-LEUKEMIA-NOS
SUBACUTE-LYMPHOID-LEUKEMIA
SUBACUTE-MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
SUBACUTE-MYELOID-LEUKEMIA
SUPERFICIAL-SPREADING-MELANOMA
SWEAT-GLAND-CANCER
T-CELL-LYMPHOMA
T-CELL.-LEUKEMIA
THROMBOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA
THYMOMA
TRANSITIONAL-CELL-CANCER-OF-THE-RENAL-PELVIS-AND-THE-URETER
TUBULAR-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-BREAST
URETERAL-CANCER
URETHRAL-CANCER
URINARY-TRACT-CANCER
UTERINE-SARCOMA
VAGINAL-CANCER
VULVAR-CANCER
WILM'S-TUMOR
ANCESTORSALL
CHANGE-STATE
CHANGE-STATE-ANIMAL
DISEASE-EVENT
EVENT
HAVE-NEOPLASM
LIVING-EVENT
MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM
PHYSICAL-EVENT
INHERITED
RELATIONS
AFFECTS-PHYSIOLOGICAL-SYSTEM : PART-OF-PHYSIOLOGICAL-SYSTEM (from HAVE-NEOPLASM)
AFFECTS-TISSUE : TISSUE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM)
AGENT : ANIMAL (from LIVING-EVENT)
CAUSED-BY : CARCINOGEN (from HAVE-NEOPLASM)
DIAGNOSED-WITH : DIAGNOSTIC-PROCEDURE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM)
DIAGNOSED-WITH-THE-USE-OF : MEDICAL-DEVICE (from DISEASE-EVENT)
EXPERIENCER : PATIENT (from DISEASE-EVENT)
HAS-RISK-FACTOR : DIET (from MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM)
LOCATION : PLACE (from PHYSICAL-EVENT)
THEME : OBJECT (from CHANGE-STATE)
TREATED-WITH : MACROBIOTIC-DIET (from MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM)
TREATED-WITH-THE-USE-OF : PHARMACEUTICAL-MATERIAL (from HAVE-NEOPLASM)
   
MEDICAL-DEVICE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM)
INHERITED
ATTRIBUTES
DIRECTION-OF-CHANGE : NEGATIVE (from CHANGE-STATE)
    POSITIVE (from
CHANGE-STATE)
TYPE-OF-CHANGE : PHYSICAL (from DISEASE-EVENT)
    MENTAL (from
DISEASE-EVENT)