Category: Rx Cancer (A – Z)

Cartilage-hair hypoplasia (CHH) is a rare genetic condition. It mainly affects bone growth, hair, and the immune system. Children are usually short from birth....

Chondrosarcoma is a cancer that starts from cartilage-forming cells. It most often grows in bones of the pelvis, ribs, shoulder girdle, or skull base,...

A malignant cartilage neoplasm is a cancer that starts from cells that make cartilage, the smooth, rubbery tissue that cushions joints. The most common...

Cartilaginous cancer—called chondrosarcoma—is a malignant tumor that forms from cartilage-producing cells. It most often starts in the pelvis, shoulder, ribs, or long bones, and...

Cancer of cartilage tissue is a rare cancer that starts in cartilage—the smooth, rubbery tissue that cushions the ends of bones at joints and...

Cartilage cancer is usually called chondrosarcoma in medical books. It is a malignant (cancerous) tumor that starts in cartilage cells, most often in the...

Paraganglioma is a rare tumor that grows from special nerve-related cells called paraganglia. These cells sit beside blood vessels and nerves throughout the body....

A neoplasm of the carotid body (also called a carotid body tumor, a type of head-and-neck paraganglioma) is a growth that starts in the...

Chemodectomas (also called head & neck paragangliomas most commonly carotid body, jugulotympanic, vagal, or laryngeal tumors) are rare tumors that grow from tiny nerve-related cells...

A carotid body paraganglioma (CBP) is a slow-growing tumor that starts in the carotid body, a small sensor at the split of the carotid...

SDHC-Related Paraganglioma and Gastric Stromal Sarcoma (Gastric GIST) are rare growths that arise from nerve-related cells called paraganglia. These cells sit along blood vessels...

Paraganglioma and gastric stromal sarcoma syndrome—better known medically as the Carney–Stratakis syndrome (CSS)—is a rare, inherited condition where a person can develop two kinds...

Uterine corpus malignant mixed Müllerian tumour (MMMT), also called uterine carcinosarcoma (UCS)— is a rare, fast-growing cancer that starts in the lining of the womb...

Uterine corpus malignant mixed mesodermal (Müllerian) tumor is a rare, very aggressive cancer that starts in the lining of the womb (the endometrium). It...

Uterine carcinosarcoma is a rare, very aggressive cancer of the womb (uterus). It looks like a “mixed” tumor because it has two parts at...

Mixed Müllerian sarcoma of the uterus—better known today as uterine carcinosarcoma (UCS)—is a rare, aggressive cancer that starts in the womb (uterus). It contains...

Malignant mixed Müllerian tumor of the corpus uteri is a very aggressive cancer that starts in the lining of the uterus (the endometrium). Doctors...

Malignant mixed mesodermal tumour of the uterine corpus is a rare, very aggressive cancer that starts in the lining of the uterus (the endometrium)....

Malignant mixed mesodermal tumor of the uterus is a rare, fast-growing cancer that starts in the womb (uterus). It has two cancer parts mixed...

Malignant Mixed Mesodermal Neoplasm of the Uterus is a rare, very aggressive cancer of the uterus that contains two parts in the same tumor:...