Category: Rx Cancer (A – Z)

Angioma serpiginosum is a rare, harmless skin condition caused by tiny, surface-level blood vessels that are widened and bunched together. On the skin it...

T-cell lymphomas are cancers that start from mature (“peripheral”) T lymphocytes. They are uncommon compared with B-cell lymphomas and include many subtypes with different...

Lymphogranulomatosis X (LgX) was an older clinicopathologic label used in the 1970s–1980s for a syndrome that overlapped with “immunoblastic lymphadenopathy” and “angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy.” Modern...

Immunoblastic lymphadenopathy is an older name doctors used for a disorder that causes swollen lymph nodes, fever, rashes, and abnormal blood proteins. With better...

Angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia is the historical name for what we now call angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), grouped in the 2022 World Health Organization...

Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL) is a fast-growing blood cancer of immune cells called T-follicular helper (TFH) cells. These cells normally live in lymph nodes...

Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma—today grouped under nodal T-follicular helper (TFH) cell lymphomas, angioimmunoblastic-type—is a fast-growing (aggressive) non-Hodgkin lymphoma that starts from a mature CD4 T-cell...

Spondylo-Meta-Epiphyseal Dysplasia (SMED) is a rare, inherited bone growth disorder. “Spondylo-” refers to the spine, “meta-” to the metaphyses (the flared ends of long...

Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, Menger type is the name many registries use for anauxetic dysplasia (AD)—a very rare genetic bone growth disorder in which the spine...

Spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia, anauxetic type is a very rare, inherited bone-growth disorder. The main feature is extremely short stature that starts before birth and continues...

Anauxetic dysplasia type 1 (ANXD1) is the most severe end of the cartilage-hair hypoplasia–anauxetic dysplasia (CHH-AD) spectrum, a group of skeletal dysplasias caused by...

Anauxetic dysplasia is a very rare genetic bone growth condition. It starts before birth and causes extreme short stature (dwarfism) with short limbs, joint...

Anaplastic pleomorphic xanthoastrocytoma (APXA) is a rare brain tumor that starts from star-shaped support cells in the brain called astrocytes. “Pleomorphic” means the tumor...

A WHO grade III oligodendroglial tumor is a fast-growing brain tumor that starts from oligodendrocytes, the cells that make the myelin (insulation) around nerve...

A WHO grade III oligodendroglial neoplasm is a malignant brain tumor that arises from oligodendrocyte-like glial cells. In today’s (WHO CNS5, 2021) system, it...

Anaplastic oligodendroglioma is a grade 3 (faster-growing) brain tumor that starts from cells called oligodendrocytes, which help make the insulation (myelin) around brain nerve...

WHO grade III mixed glioma” is an older name used when a brain tumor looked like a mix of two cell types: astrocytes and...

Anaplastic mixed glioma” (also called anaplastic oligoastrocytoma) was an older name for a fast-growing brain tumor that looked like a mix of two cell...

Anaplastic oligoastrocytoma was the old name for a malignant (fast-growing) brain tumor that looked like a mix of two cell types: astrocytes and oligodendrocytes....

Ki-1⁺ anaplastic large cell lymphoma is a cancer of mature T-cells in which the tumor cells are large, look very abnormal (“anaplastic”), and almost...