Cancer and Oncology Terms

A rare midline bone tumor grown from embryonic leftovers, slow to develop but stubbornly local and prone to returning.

A type of cancer that grows into the muscular wall of the uterus.

A malignant, fast-growing tumor that develops from trophoblastic cells (cells that help an embryo attach to the uterus and help form the placenta).

A fast-growing tumor of placental cells that reaches the lungs early yet responds remarkably well to chemotherapy.

A malignant, fast-growing tumor that develops from trophoblastic cells (cells that help an embryo attach to the uterus and help form the placenta).

A malignant, fast-growing tumor that develops from trophoblastic cells (cells that help an embryo attach to the uterus and help form the placenta).

A rare type of cancer that occurs in the ventricles of the brain.

A disease in which too many eosinophils (a type of white blood cell) are found in the bone marrow, blood, and other tissues.

A slowly progressing disease in which too many white blood cells (not lymphocytes) are made in the bone marrow.

Slow growing blood cancers whose cells mature far enough to function, which is why they are so often found by accident.

This slow-progressing blood cancer results from an acquired genetic change that causes the bone marrow to overproduce white blood cells.

A slowly progressing type of myelodysplastic/myeloproliferative disease in which too many myelomonocytes (a type of white blood cell) are in the bone marrow, crowding out other normal blood cells…

A disease in which too many neutrophils (a type of white blood cell) are found in the blood.

Refers to the early stages of chronic myelogenous leukemia or chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer.

A substance being studied in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.

Melanoma that is found only in the epidermis (outer layer of skin).

Melanoma that has spread from the epidermis (outer layer of skin) down into the papillary dermis (the thin top layer of the dermis).

Melanoma that has spread down through the papillary dermis (the thin top layer of the dermis) but not into the reticular dermis (the thick bottom layer of the dermis).