Cancer Types
Plain-language explanations of specific cancers.
Cancer Types
What Are Brain Tumors?
A plain-language overview of brain and spinal cord (central nervous system) tumors, including the difference between benign and malignant, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
5 min read · Beginner
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What Is Bladder Cancer?
A plain-language overview of bladder cancer, where it starts, its main types, and how it is found and treated, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
6 min read · Beginner
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What Is Breast Cancer?
A plain-language overview of breast cancer, where it starts, and how it is found and treated, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
6 min read · Beginner
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What Is Cervical Cancer?
A plain-language overview of cervical cancer, where it starts, its main types, and how it is found, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
6 min read · Beginner
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What Is Colorectal Cancer?
A plain-language explanation of colorectal cancer, how it often starts as a polyp, and why removing polyps can help, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
3 min read · Beginner
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What Is Esophageal Cancer?
A plain-language overview of esophageal cancer, where it starts, and its two most common types, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
5 min read · Beginner
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What Is Head and Neck Cancer?
A plain-language overview of head and neck cancers, where they form, their common causes, and typical symptoms, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
7 min read · Beginner
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What Is Kidney Cancer?
A plain-language overview of kidney cancer, where it starts, its main types, and how it is found, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
5 min read · Beginner
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What Is Leukemia?
A plain-language explanation of leukemia, a group of blood cell cancers, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
3 min read · Beginner
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What Is Liver Cancer?
A plain-language overview of liver cancer, where it starts, its signs and symptoms, and the main types, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
6 min read · Beginner
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What Is Lung Cancer?
A plain-language overview of lung cancer, its two main types, and its main cause, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
5 min read · Beginner
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What Is Lymphoma?
A plain-language explanation of lymphoma, a cancer that begins in the lymph system, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
3 min read · Beginner
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What Is Melanoma?
A plain-language explanation of melanoma, how it differs from other skin cancers, and how UV radiation can lead to skin cancer, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
3 min read · Beginner
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What Is Multiple Myeloma?
A plain-language overview of multiple myeloma and other plasma cell neoplasms, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
5 min read · Beginner
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What Is Ovarian Cancer?
A plain-language overview of ovarian, fallopian tube, and primary peritoneal cancer, where it starts, and how it is found, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
6 min read · Beginner
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What Is Pancreatic Cancer?
A plain-language explanation of pancreatic cancer and the two kinds of cells it can start in, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
3 min read · Beginner
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What Is Prostate Cancer?
A plain-language look at prostate cancer, why it often grows slowly, and what screening involves, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
3 min read · Beginner
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What Is Stomach Cancer?
A plain-language overview of stomach (gastric) cancer, where it starts in the stomach, and the main types, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
6 min read · Beginner
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What Is Thyroid Cancer?
A plain-language overview of thyroid cancer, where it starts, its main types, and how it is found, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
6 min read · Beginner
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What Is Uterine Cancer?
A plain-language overview of uterine cancer, focusing on endometrial cancer, where it starts, and how it is found, based on National Cancer Institute resources.
6 min read · Beginner