Division of Cancer
Types Of Cancer
Generally distinguished:
* Carcinomas: an epithelial cancer, that is to say a surface composed entirely of cells
* Sarcomas: proliferating cancer tissue in “support” such as bone.
* The hematopoietic cancers : cancer of blood cells.
They can be classified by affected organs, with such types of cancer:
* Breast cancer
* Colon cancer: cancer of the colon, near the rectum
* Pancreatic cancer
* Multiple myeloma: Cancer of the bone marrow
* Leukemia: cancer of the blood
* Kaposi’s sarcoma: A cancer of blood vessels
* Lymphoma: Hodgkin’s disease and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
* Testicular cancer
There are almost as many sources of cancer tissue in the body. Some however are more frequent than others.