Cancer and Tumor Terms

The older name for a lymphoma that stands apart from every other one, in the cell that defines it and in the way it spreads.

Painless swelling of a node in the neck is the usual opening, sometimes with drenching night sweats and a fever that comes and goes.

An uncommon type of thyroid tumor that can be benign or malignant.

Cancer that forms in tissues of the hypopharynx (the bottom part of the throat).

A word meaning painless that drifted into meaning slow, and a label promising more comfort than it can deliver.

A type of lymphoma that tends to grow and spread slowly, and has few symptoms.

Cancer that has spread from where it started in the breast into surrounding, healthy tissue.

Cancer that has spread beyond the layer of tissue in which it developed and is growing into surrounding, healthy tissues.

The most common type of invasive breast cancer.

A type of breast cancer in which the breast looks red and swollen and feels warm.

A small pancreatic tumor that keeps releasing insulin when blood sugar is already low, producing confusing spells of odd behavior.

A type of lymphoma that grows and spreads quickly and has severe symptoms.

A tumor that occurs in the brain.

A noninvasive condition in which abnormal cells are found in the lining of a breast duct.

A rare cancer of melanocytes (cells that produce the pigment melanin) found in the eye.

Cancer that has spread from where it started in the breast into surrounding, healthy tissue.

Cancer that has spread beyond the layer of tissue in which it developed and is growing into surrounding, healthy tissues.

Cancer that has spread from the surface of the cervix to tissue deeper in the cervix or to other parts of the body.

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

A type of tumor in which surface epithelial cells grow downward into the underlying supportive tissue.