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Cancer Classifications

  1. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN
    General: Epithelial
    Carcinoma
  2. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    General: Connective or Supportive
    Sarcoma
  3. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    General: Plasma cells
    Myeloma
  4. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    General: Lymphocytes
    Lymphoma
  5. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    General: Hematopoietic cells in the bone marrow
    Leukemia
  6. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Glandular epithelium
    Adenocarcinoma
  7. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Squamous epithelium
    Squamous cell carcinoma
  8. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Bone
    Osteosarcoma
  9. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Cartilage
    Chondrosarcoma
  10. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Adipose
    Liposarcoma
  11. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Smooth muscle
    Leiomyosarcoma
  12. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Skeletal muscle
    Rhabdosarcoma
  13. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Fibrous tissue
    Fibrosarcoma
  14. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Membranes lining body cavities
    Mesothelial sarcoma or mesothelioma
  15. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Blood vessels
    Angiosarcoma
  16. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Lymphocytes (in Lymphoma)
    Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma
  17. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: WBC
    Myelogenous leukemia
  18. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: Lymphocytes (in Leukemia)
    Lymphocytic leukemia
  19. CLASSIFICATION OF MALIGNANT TUMORS BASED ON
    CELLULAR ORIGIN

    Specific: RBC
    Erythremia
  20. For benign tumors, terms usually end with ____.
    -oma 

    • Examples:
    • Papilloma
    • Adenoma
    • Fibroma
    • Lipoma
    • Chrondroma
    • Osteoma
    • Hemangioma
    • Lymphagioma
    • Leiomyoma
    • Rhabdomyoma
    • Neuroma
    • Glioma
    • Neurilemmoma
    • Meningioma
    • Hemangioma
    • Lymphagioma
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Cancer Classifications
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