MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-BY-BODY-PART

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MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-BY-BODY-PART

Definition: general term used to refer to different forms of disease characterised by uncontrolled, abnormal growth of cells in the body that can spread to other parts in the body . The diagnosis of cancer usually depends upon the observation of abnormal microscopic features in biopsies, i.e. tissue removed surgically for such examination. Cancers are classified according to the type of cell from which they are derived as well as the organ of origin. For example, cancers arising within the bronchi, often collectively referred to as 'lung cancer', include both adenocarcinomas (derived from glandular epithelium) and squamous carcinomas (derived from squamous epithelium. Sarcomas are cancers of connective tissue, including bone and cartilage. The behaviour of cancers and their response to therapy vary widely depending on numerous other factors such as growth rate, differentiation in cell and characteristics and size at the time of presentation. Early diagnosis is important for the success of treatment.

Conceptual Structures
ISA	MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM
SUBCLASSES	ABDOMINAL-CANCER MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BONE-CONNECTIVE-TISSUE-SKIN-AND-BREAST- MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-DIGESTIVE-ORGANS-AND-PERITONEUM MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-GENITOURINARY-ORGANS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LIP-ORAL-CAVITY-AND-PHARYNX MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LYMPHATIC-AND-HEMATOPOIETIC-TISSUE MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-SITES- MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-RESPIRATORY-AND-INTRATHORACIC-ORGANS-
DESCENDANTS	ABDOMINAL-CANCER ACINAR-CELL-CARCINOMA ACRAL-LENTIGINOUS-MELANOMA ACUTE-ERYHTROLEUKEMIA ACUTE-ERYTHREMIA-AND-ERYTHROLEUKEMIA ACUTE-ERYTHREMIC-MYELOSIS ACUTE-LEUKEMIA-NOS ACUTE-LYMPHOID-LEUKEMIA ACUTE-MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA ACUTE-MYELOID-LEUKEMIA ACUTE-NONLYMPHOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA ACUTE-PROMYELOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA ACUTE-PROMYELOMONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA ADENOCARCINOMA-OF-THE-LUNG ADENOID-CYSTIC-CARCINOMA ADENOID-CYSTIC-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-BREAST ADRENAL-CANCER ADRENAL-MEDULLARY-TUMOR ADRENOCORTICAL-CANCER ADULT-HODGKINS-DISEASE ADULT-NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA ADULT-T-CELL-LEUKEMIA-LYMPHOMA AGGRESSIVE-NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA ALVEOLAR-CELL-LUNG-CANCER ALVEOLAR-SOFT-PART-SARCOMA ANAL-CANCER ANAPLASTIC-ASTROCYTOMA ANAPLASTIC-OLIGODENDROGLIOMA ANAPLASTIC-THYROID-CARCINOMA ANGIOSARCOMA ASTROCYTOMA B-CELL-ACUTE-LYMPHOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA BILE-DUCT-CANCER BONE-CANCER BRAIN-STEM-GLIOMA BRAIN-TUMOR BRONCHIOLALVEOLAR-LUNG-CANCER BRONCHOGENIC-CARCINOMA BURKITTS-LYMPHOMA CHEEK-CANCER CHILDHOOD-HODGKINS-DISEASE CHILDHOOD-LEUKEMIA CHILDHOOD-LIVER-CANCER CHILDHOOD-NEPHROBLASTOMA CHILDHOOD-NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA CHILDHOOD-RHABDOMYOSARCOMA CHLOROMA CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA CHOLESTEATOMA CHONDROSARCOMA CHORDOMA CHORIOCARCINOMA CHRONIC-ERYTHREMIA CHRONIC-LEUKEMIA-NOS CHRONIC-LYMPHOID-LEUKEMIA CHRONIC-MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA CHRONIC-MYELOID-LEUKEMIA CLEAR-CELL-ADENOCARCINOMA-OF-THE-VAGINA CLEAR-CELL-CYSTADENOCARCINOMA CLOACOGENIC-CANCER COLORECTAL-CANCER COMEDOCARCINOMA CONGENITAL-BRAIN-TUMOR CONNECTIVE-TISSUE-CANCER DI-GUGLIELMOS-DISEASE DIFFUSE-LARGE-CELL-LYMPHOMA DIFFUSE-STOMACH-CANCER DUCTAL-BREAST-CARCINOMA DUCTAL-BREAST-CARCINOMA-IN-SITU DUODENAL-CARCINOMA ENDOCRINE-CANCER ENDOCRINE-PANCREATIC-CANCER ENDOMETRIAL-CANCER ENDOMETROID-ADENOCARCINOMA ENDOTHELIOMA EOSINOPHILIC-LEUKEMIA EPENDYMAL-TUMOR EPENDYMOBLASTOMA EPIDERMOID-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-LUNG EPITHELIAL-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-OVARY ERYTHREMIC-MYELOSIS ERYTHROLEUKEMIA EWING'S-SARCOMA EXOCRINE-PANCREATIC-CANCER EXTRAHEPATIC-BILE-DUCT-CANCER FALLOPIAN-TUBE-CANCER FAMILIAL-MEDULLARY-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-THYROID FELINE-LEUKEMIA FIBROSARCOMA-OF-SOFT-TISSUE FIBROSARCOMA-OF-THE-BONE FIBROUS-HISTIOCYTOMA FOLLICULAR-CELL-THYROID-CANCER GALLBLADDER-CANCER GASTRIC-CARCINOMA GASTRINOMA GASTROINTESTINALCARCINOID-TUMOR GERM-CELL-TUMOR GESTATIONAL-TROPHOBLASTIC-TUMOR GLIOBLASTOMA-MULTIFORME GLIOMA GLOMUS-JUGULAR-TUMOR GLUCAGONOMA GRAWITZ-TUMOR GYNECOLOGICAL-CANCER HAIRY-CELL-LEUKEMIA HEAVY-CHAIN-DISEASES HEILMEYER-SCHNER-DISEASE HEMANGIOBLASTOMA HEMANGIOMA HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA HEMANGIOSARCOMA HEPATOBLASTOMA HEPATOCELLULAR-CARCINOMA HEPATOMA HISTIOCYTIC-NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA HODGKIN'S-DISEASE HODGKINS-DISEASE-LYMPHOCYTIC-DEPLETION HODGKINS-DISEASE-NODULAR-SCLEROSIS HODGKINS-GRANULOMA HODGKINS-PARAGRANULOMA HODGKINS-SARCOMA HYDATIDIFORM-MOLE HYPERNEPHROMA INDOLENT-NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA INFANTILE-HEMANGIOPERICYTOMA INFILTRATING-DUCTAL-BREAST-CARCINOMA INFILTRATING-LOBULAR-BREAST-CARCINOMA INFLAMMATORY-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-BREAST INSULINOMA INTESTINAL-STOMACH-CANCER INTRAOCULAR-MELANOMA ISLET-CELL-CARCINOMA JUXTACORTICAL-OSTEOSARCOMA KAHLERS-DISEASE KAPOSIS-SARCOMA KRUKENBERG-TUMOR LACRIMAL-GLAND-TUMOR LARGE-CELL-CARCINOMA LEIOMYOSARCOMA LENTIGO-MALIGNA-MELANOMA LEPTOMENINGEAL-CARCINOMA LETTERER-SIWE-DISEASE LEUKEMIA-OF-UNSPECIFIED-CELL-TYPE LIPOSARCOMA LIVER-METASTASES LOBULAR-BREAST-CARCINOMA LOBULAR-CARCINOMA-IN-SITU LOW-GRADE-LYMPHOMA LYMPHANGIOSARCOMA LYMPHOBLASTIC-NON-HODGKIN'S-LYMPHOMA LYMPHOCYTIC-HISTIOCYTIC-PREDOMINANCE LYMPHOCYTIC-LYMPHOMA LYMPHOID-LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA LYMPHOSARCOMA-CELL-LEUKEMIA MALE-REPRODUCTIVE-CANCER MALIGNANT-GIANT-CELL-TUMOR MALIGNANT-HISTIOCYTOSIS MALIGNANT-MAST-CELL-TUMOR MALIGNANT-MELANOMA-OF-SKIN MALIGNANT-MESENCHYMOMA MALIGNANT-MESOTHELIOMA MALIGNANT-MIXED-MULLERIAN-TUMOR MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BLADDER MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BODY-OF-UTERUS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BONE-AND-ARTICULAR-CARTILAGE MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BONE-CONNECTIVE-TISSUE-SKIN-AND-BREAST- MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-BRAIN MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-CERVIX-UTERI MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-COLON MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-CONNECTIVE-AND-OTHER-SOFT-TISSUE MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-DIGESTIVE-ORGANS-AND-PERITONEUM MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-ESOPHAGUS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-EYE MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-FEMALE-BREAST MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-FLOOR-OF-MOUTH MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-GALLBLADDER-AND-EXTRAHEPATIC-BILE-DUCTS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-GASTROINTESTINAL-TRACT MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-GENITOURINARY-ORGANS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-GUM MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-HYPOPHARYNX MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-KIDNEY MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-KIDNEY-AND-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-URINARY-ORGANS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LARYNX MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LIP MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LIP-ORAL-CAVITY-AND-PHARYNX MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LIVER-AND-INTRAHEPATIC-BILE-DUCTS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LYMPHATIC-AND-HEMATOPOIETIC-TISSUE MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-MAJOR-SALIVARY-GLANDS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-MALE-BREAST MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-NASAL-CAVITIES-MIDDLE-EAR-AND-ACCESSORY-SINUSES MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-NASAL-CAVITY MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-NASOPHARYNX MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-NERVOUS-SYSTEM MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-ORAL-CAVITY MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OROPHARYNX MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-ILL-DEFINED-SITES MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-ILL-DEFINED-SITES-WITHIN-THE-LIP-ORAL-CAVITY-AND-PHARYNX MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-ILL-DEFINED-SITES-WITHIN-THE-RESPIRATORY-SYSTEM-AND-INTRATHORACIC-OR MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-FEMALE-GENITAL-ORGANS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-PARTS-OF-MOUTH MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-PARTS-OF-NERVOUS-SYSTEM MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-AND-UNSPECIFIED-SITES- MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-DIGESTIVE MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-ENDOCRINE-GLANDS-AND-RELATED-STRUCTURES MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OVARY-AND-OTHER-UTERINE-ADNEXA MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PANCREAS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PENIS-AND-OTHER-MALE-GENITAL-ORGANS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PHARYNX MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PLACENTA MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PLEURA MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-PROSTATE MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-RECTUM-RECTOSIGMOID-JUNCTION-AND-ANUS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-RESPIRATORY-AND-INTRATHORACIC-ORGANS- MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-RETROPERITONEUM-AND-PERITONEUM MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-SALIVARY-GLANDS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-SKIN MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-SMALL-INTESTINE-INCLUDING-DUODENUM MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-STOMACH MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-TESTIS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-THYMUS-HEART-AND-MEDIASTINUM MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-THYROID-GLAND MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-TONGUE MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-TRACHEA-BRONCHUS-AND-LUNG MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-UTERUS MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-UTERUS-PART-UNSPECIFIED MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-WITHOUT-SPECIFICATION-OF-SITE MALIGNANT-PITUITARY-TUMOR MALIGNANT-TERATOMA MEDULLARY-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-BREAST MEDULLARY-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-THYROID MEDULLOBLASTOMA MEGAKARYOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA MEGAKARYOCYTIC-MYELOSIS MENINGEAL-CARCINOMATOSIS MERKEL-CELL-TUMOR-OF-SKIN METASTATIC-BRAIN-TUMOR MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA MUCINOUS-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-BREAST MUCINOUS-CYSTADENOCARCINOMA MULLERIAN-TUMOR MULTIFOCAL-OSTEOSARCOMA MULTIPLE-ENDOCRINE-NEOPLASIA MULTIPLE-MYELOMA MULTIPLE-MYELOMA-AND-IMMUNOPROLIFERATIVE-NEOPLASMS MYCOSIS-FUNGOIDES MYELOBLASTIC-LEUKEMIA MYELOID-LEUKEMIA MYELOID-SARCOMA MYELOMA NEUTROPHILIC-LEUKEMIA NODULAR-LYMPHOMA NODULAR-MELANOMA NON-HODGKINS-LYMPHOMA NON-SMALL-CELL-LUNG-CANCER NONSEMINOMA NULL-CELL-ACUTE-LYMPHOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA OLIGODENDROGLIA OLIGODENDROGLIOMA OSTEOSARCOMA OTHER-MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-SKIN OTHER-MALIGNANT-NEOPLASMS-OF-LYMPHOID-AND-HISTIOCYTIC-TISSUE OTHER-SPECIFIED-LEUKEMIA OVARIAN-CANCER OVARIAN-GERM-CELL-TUMOR PAGET'S-DISEASE-OF-THE-BREAST PANCOAST-TUMOR PAPILLARY-CANCER-OF-THE-BLADDER PARANASAL-SINUS-CANCER PARATHYROID-GLAND-CANCER PAROTID-GLAND-CANCER PENILE-CANCER PERIPHERAL-NEUROEPITHELIOMA PERITONEAL-CAVITY-CANCER PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA PINEAL-GLAND-TUMOR PLASMA-CELL-LEUKEMIA PLASMA-CELL-TUMOR PLASMACYTOMA PLEOMORPHIC-LYMPHOMA PROLYMPHOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA RETINOBLASTOMA RHABDOMYOSARCOMA SARCOMA SCROTUM-CANCER SECONDARY-AND-UNSPECIFIED-MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-LYMPH-NODES SECONDARY-LIVER-CANCER SECONDARY-MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-OTHER-SPECIFIED-SITES SECONDARY-MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-RESPIRATORY-AND-DIGESTIVE-SYSTEMS SEMINOMA SEROUS-CYSTADENOCARCINOMA SERTOLI-LYDIG-TUMOR SEZARY-SYNDROME SMALL-CELL-LUNG-CANCER SMALL-INTESTINE-CANCER SOFT-PALATE-CANCER SOFT-TISSUE-OSTEOSARCOMA SOFT-TISSUE-SARCOMA SOFT-TISSUE-SARCOMA-ADULT SOFT-TISSUE-SARCOMA-CHILDHOOD SPLEEN-CANCER SPORADIC-MEDULLARY-CANCER SQUAMOUS-CELL-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-SKIN SQUAMOUS-CELL-LUNG-CANCER STROMAL-TUMOR SUBACUTE-LEUKEMIA-NOS SUBACUTE-LYMPHOID-LEUKEMIA SUBACUTE-MONOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA SUBACUTE-MYELOID-LEUKEMIA SUPERFICIAL-SPREADING-MELANOMA SWEAT-GLAND-CANCER T-CELL-LYMPHOMA T-CELL.-LEUKEMIA THROMBOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA THYMOMA TRANSITIONAL-CELL-CANCER-OF-THE-RENAL-PELVIS-AND-THE-URETER TUBULAR-CARCINOMA-OF-THE-BREAST URETERAL-CANCER URETHRAL-CANCER URINARY-TRACT-CANCER UTERINE-SARCOMA VAGINAL-CANCER VULVAR-CANCER WILM'S-TUMOR
ANCESTORS	ALL CHANGE-STATE CHANGE-STATE-ANIMAL DISEASE-EVENT EVENT HAVE-NEOPLASM LIVING-EVENT MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM PHYSICAL-EVENT
INHERITED RELATIONS	AFFECTS-PHYSIOLOGICAL-SYSTEM : PART-OF-PHYSIOLOGICAL-SYSTEM (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) AFFECTS-TISSUE : TISSUE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) AGENT : ANIMAL (from LIVING-EVENT ) CAUSED-BY : CARCINOGEN (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) DIAGNOSED-WITH : DIAGNOSTIC-PROCEDURE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) DIAGNOSED-WITH-THE-USE-OF : MEDICAL-DEVICE (from DISEASE-EVENT ) EXPERIENCER : PATIENT (from DISEASE-EVENT ) HAS-RISK-FACTOR : DIET (from MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM ) LOCATION : PLACE (from PHYSICAL-EVENT ) THEME : OBJECT (from CHANGE-STATE ) TREATED-WITH : MACROBIOTIC-DIET (from MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM ) TREATED-WITH-THE-USE-OF : PHARMACEUTICAL-MATERIAL (from HAVE-NEOPLASM ) MEDICAL-DEVICE (from HAVE-NEOPLASM )
INHERITED ATTRIBUTES	DIRECTION-OF-CHANGE : NEGATIVE (from CHANGE-STATE ) POSITIVE (from CHANGE-STATE ) TYPE-OF-CHANGE : PHYSICAL (from DISEASE-EVENT ) MENTAL (from DISEASE-EVENT )