By no means a single disease with a single treatment, there are over 200 types of cancer. Each type has its own name and treatment. Click on the links below to find out more about them.
Cancer that starts in the salivary glands is very rare.
Read about this tumour that starts in the nerve sheath.
When a cancer spreads elsewhere, this is a secondary cancer.
Find out more information about when cancer spreads to the lymph nodes.
Find out about the three main types of skin cancer.
Find out more information about this rare type of cancer.
Read more about this type of cancer affecting the central nervous system.
Squamous cell carcinoma is a type of skin cancer.
Read about adenocarcinoma, the most common type of stomach cancer.
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