Category: Rx Cancer (A – Z)

Burkitt lymphoma is a very fast-growing cancer of mature B-lymphocytes. The cancer cells usually carry a change in their DNA called an IG::MYC rearrangement—this...

Burkitt lymphoma is a very fast-growing cancer of B lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that normally helps your body fight infections. In...

CYLD cutaneous syndrome (CCS) is a rare inherited condition in which people develop many small skin tumors—most often cylindromas, spiradenomas, and trichoepitheliomas—that start in...

Breast angiosarcoma is a rare, fast-growing cancer that starts in the cells lining blood vessels or lymph vessels within the breast or the breast...

Intraepidermal squamous cell carcinoma—Bowen’s type is an early skin cancer that sits only in the top layer of the skin (the epidermis). The cancer...

Intraepidermal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC in situ, Bowen disease) is an early, non-invasive skin cancer confined to the epidermis. Cells look malignant under the...

Botryoid-type embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma is a cancer that starts from very early cells that can grow into skeletal muscle. “Botryoid” means “grape-like.” These tumors often...

Botryoid rhabdomyosarcoma (also called sarcoma botryoides) is a cancer that grows from very early cells that can become skeletal muscle. It is a special...

An ovarian low malignant potential tumor—also called a borderline ovarian tumor—is a growth that starts from the surface lining (epithelium) of the ovary. It...

Low malignant potential (LMP) ovarian tumor (also called a borderline ovarian tumor) is a growth that looks abnormal under the microscope but does not...

A Epithelial tumor of the ovary of borderline malignancy (also called a “tumor of low malignant potential”) is an epithelial ovarian growth that shows...

A Epithelial Ovarian Tumor of Borderline Malignancy is a growth that starts from the surface lining (epithelium) of the ovary. The cells look more...

A borderline ovarian surface epithelial-stromal tumour is a growth that starts in the surface lining cells of the ovary. The cells multiply more than...

A borderline ovarian epithelial tumour is an abnormal growth that starts in the thin surface layer of the ovary. Doctors call that layer the...

A borderline epithelial tumor of the ovary is a growth that starts from the surface-lining cells (epithelium) of the ovary. It is not a...

Primary osteosarcoma is a cancer that starts in the bone itself. The tumor cells are abnormal bone-forming cells. They make a disorganized, immature bone...

Osteogenic sarcoma, also called osteosarcoma, is a cancer that starts in bone-forming cells. These cancer cells make immature bone (“osteoid”) inside the tumor. It...

Osteosarcoma is a cancer that starts in the bone-making cells. These cells normally build the hard mineral part of bone. In osteosarcoma they grow...

Trichodiscomas are small, harmless bumps that grow from hair-follicle tissue in the skin. Doctors call them hamartomas, which means an overgrowth of normal skin...

Fibrofolliculomas are small, smooth, skin-colored bumps that grow around a hair follicle. They are benign (not cancer). Each bump is usually 2–4 mm across,...