Malignant epithelial tumors
- Squamous cell carcinoma (skin)
- Basal cell carcinoma
- Gastric carcinoma, intestinal type
- Gastric carcinoma, difuse type (mucinous)
- Moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma (colon)
- Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma (mucinous), colon
- Poorly differentiated hepatocellular carcinoma
- Renal cell carcinoma (Grawitz tumor)
- Endometrioid carcinoma of endometrium
- Invasive carcinoma of the breast
- Carcinoma metastasis (lymph node)
- Gastric carcinoma, difuse type ("signet ring cell" carcinoma) (to follow)
Carcinoma is the term used for a malignant epithelial tumor. Depending on the type of the epithelium, there are two main types of carcinomas :
- squamous cell carcinoma, derived from squamous epithelium
- adenocarcinoma, derived from glandular epithelium
Last updated : 01/30/2009
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