A set of related cancers that form in the bone marrow and other blood-producing organs. Leukemia is named after the leukocytes, white blood cells which mutate before maturity and become cancerous.
Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells somewhere in the body. The lungs are the organs that nourish our blood with fresh oxygen and eliminate carbon dioxide when we breathe.
Gynecologic cancers are malignant tumors within the female reproductive organs. Gynecologic cancers account for approximately 13% of all cancers that affect women.
Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers include cancer of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, rectum, and anus as well as cancers of the liver, pancreas, gallbladder, and biliary system.
The kidneys collect urine in a section called the pelvis. The pelvis and its subdivisions (calyces) empty urine into a tube called the ureter, which leads to the bladder.
The group of tumors that are associated with the hormone-secreting (endocrine) glands of the body. The glands in the body that make and secrete hormones comprise the endocrine system.