Cancer & Tumors terms

Cancer has spread (1) through the muscle layer of the colon and/or rectal wall to the serosa (outermost layer) of the colon and/or rectal wall; or (2) through the serosa of the colon and/or rectal…

Cancer (1) may have spread through the mucosa (innermost layer) of the colon and/or rectal wall to the submucosa (layer of tissue under the mucosa) and may have spread to the muscle layer of the…

A type of tumor that begins in the type of cells that give rise to egg cells and is most often found in the ovaries.

Breast cancer that has not spread beyond the breast or the axillary lymph nodes.

A term used to describe cancer that is early in its growth, and may not have spread to other parts of the body.

A mass of rapidly growing cells that begins in embryonic (fetal) tissue.

Cancer that occurs in endocrine tissue, the tissue in the body that secretes hormones.

A tumor that is found in endocrine tissue but does not make extra hormones.

Cancer that forms in the tissue lining the uterus (the small, hollow, pear-shaped organ in a woman's pelvis in which a fetus develops).

A type of brain tumor that begins in cells lining the spinal cord central canal (fluid-filled space down the center) or the ventricles (fluid-filled spaces of the brain).

Cancer that begins in squamous cells (thin, flat cells that look like fish scales).

Cancer of the blood-forming tissues in which large numbers of immature, abnormal red blood cells are found in the blood and bone marrow.

Cancer that forms in tissues lining the esophagus (the muscular tube through which food passes from the throat to the stomach).

A type of cancer that forms in bone or soft tissue.

A group of cancers that includes Ewing tumor of bone (ETB or Ewing sarcoma of bone), extraosseous Ewing (EOE) tumors, primitive neuroectodermal tumors (PNET or peripheral neuroepithelioma), and…

A disease in which malignant (cancer) cells are found in the tissues of the pancreas.

Cancer has spread outside of the lung in which it began or to other parts of the body.

A rare cancer that forms in germ cells in the testicle or ovary, or in germ cells that have traveled to areas of the body other than the brain (such as the chest, abdomen, or tailbone).

A rare cancer that develops in germ cells that are found in areas of the body other than the ovary or testicle (such as the brain, chest, abdomen, or tailbone).

A rare cancer that forms in the part of the bile duct that is outside the liver.