Types of Cancers
Overview
Cancers are classified in two ways: by primary site, or the location in the body where the cancer first developed; and by the type of tissue in which the cancer originates (histological type). This section introduces the first method: cancer classification based on primary site.
In this sense, main cancers are:
- Bladder Cancer
- Breast Cancer
- Colorectal Cancer
- Gallbladder Cancer
- Gastric Cancer
- Head and Neck Cancer
- Kidney Cancer
- Liver Cancer
- Lung Cancer
- Oesophageal Cancer
- Ovarian Cancer
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Testicular Cancer
- Thyroid Cancer
- Cancer of Unknown Primary