Cancer & Tumors terms

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.

A slowly progressing cancer that starts in blood-forming tissues such as the bone marrow, and causes large numbers of white blood cells to be produced and enter the blood stream.

An indolent (slow-growing) cancer in which too many immature lymphocytes (white blood cells) are found mostly in the blood and bone marrow.

An indolent (slow-growing) cancer in which immature lymphocytes (white blood cells) are found in the blood and bone marrow and/or in the lymph nodes.

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

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

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.

A phase of chronic myelogenous leukemia in which fewer than 10% of the cells in the blood and bone marrow are blast cells (immature blood cells).

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).

Melanoma that has spread down into the reticular dermis (the thick bottom layer of the dermis).

Melanoma that has spread down into the subcutaneous tissue (tissue beneath the skin).

The most common type of Hodgkin lymphoma, which is a cancer of the immune system.

A rare type of tumor, usually of the female genital tract, in which the insides of the cells look clear when viewed under a microscope.

A soft tissue tumor that begins in a tendon (tough, fibrous, cord-like tissue that connects muscle to bone or to another structure).

A rare type of kidney cancer, in which the inside of the cells look clear when viewed under a microscope.

Cancer that has spread from the original (primary) tumor to the central nervous system (CNS).