Cancer precursor project - list of all lung cancer types

31 October 2025

My cancer precursor project discusses how different types of cancer arise. Part 7 discusses lung cancer and its distinct types.

Below are lists (alphabetical and by essay) of all lung cancer types and where to find a more complete discussion. Items in italics are not included as one of the lung cancer types.

Lung cancers and the essays that discuss them

How lung cancer arises, based on complexity theory (pending)

How cancer and lung adenocarcinoma arise, part 7c

Acinar adenocarcinoma, part 7d

Adenocarcinoma precursors, part 7b, see also part 7c

Adenocarcinoma-enteric type, part 7e

Adenocarcinoma, NOS, part 7d

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (pending)

Adenosquamous carcinoma, part 7f

Atypical carcinoid tumor / neuroendocrine tumor, part 7g

Basaloid squamous cell carcinoma, part 7f

Carcinosarcoma (pending)

Colloid adenocarcinoma, part 7e

Congenital peribronchial myofibroblastic tumor (pending)

Epithelial myoepithelial carcinoma (pending)

Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (pending)

Fetal adenocarcinoma, part 7e

Giant cell carcinoma (pending)

Hyalinizing clear cell carcinoma (pending)

Intimal sarcoma (pending)

Invasive mucinous adenocarcinoma, part 7e

Invasive non-mucinous adenocarcinoma, part 7d, part 7e

Large cell carcinoma (pending)

Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, part 7g

Lepidic adenocarcinoma, part 7d

Lung anatomy and histology, part 7a

Lymphoepithelioma carcinoma, part 7f

Lymphomatoid granulomatosis, grades 1, 2 and 3 (pending)

Melanoma (pending)

Micropapillary adenocarcinoma, part 7d

Minimally invasive adenocarcinom, includes nonmucinous and mucinous, part 7e

Mixed invasive mucinous and nonmucinous adenocarcinoma, part 7e

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (pending)

Myoepithelial carcinoma (pending)

NUT carcinoma (pending)

Papillary adenocarcinoma, part 7d

PEComa, malignant (pending)

Pleomorphic carcinoma (pending)

Pleuropulmonary blastoma (pending)

Pulmonary blastoma (pending)

Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis (pending)

Pulmonary myxoid sarcoma with EWSR1-CREB1 translocation (

Sarcomatoid carcinomas (pending)

Small cell carcinoma, part 7g

Solid adenocarcinoma, part 7d

Spindle cell carcinoma (pending)

Squamous cell carcinoma, keratinizing, part 7f

Squamous cell carcinoma, nonkeratinizing, part 7f

Squamous cell carcinoma, , part 7f

Typical carcinoid tumor / neuroendocrine tumor, part 7g

Lung essays and the tumors they describe:

Part 7a - lung anatomy and histology

Part 7b - adencarcinoma precursors

Part 7c - how cancer and lung adenocarcinoma arise

Part 7d - common lung adenocarcinoma patterns

Part 7e - minimally invasive and rare lung adenocarcinoma variants

Part 7f - squamous cell carcinomas and adenosquamous carcinoma

Part 7g - lung neuroendocrine tumors and their precursors

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