Carcinomas: are classified as cancer in the outer layer of cells of the skin and internal mechanisms. They account for most cases of breast, lung, and intestinal, skin and prostate cancer. Carcinomas typically spread to bones, liver or any other organ in the body.
Sarcomas: cancers of connective tissue such as bone, muscle, cartilage and blood vessels. Often metastasize to affect the lungs.
Lymphomas and Leukemia: hematological (of the blood) cancers, occur in and affect the functions of the blood or the organs that create the blood, like the lymph nodes, spleen or the marrow in our bones
Gliomas: cancers occurring in the nerve centers/ tissue
Melanomas: cancers of the skin, often occurring in coloring cells.
Most medical names for cancers provide clues to their meaning. Seeing as most names for cancer have been around since the Hellenistic era, the result is a strong resemblance to their Greek and Latin roots.
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