Curing cancer network - essays on various types of cancer
20 December 2023
Part of my Curing Cancer Network (CCN) activities is to post images and short essays about different types of cancer from a pathologist’s perspective for the general public.
The regularly updated index to all of my cancer and medical posts is here, but I have provided links to the essays written to date below.
Note: these essays are hosted at PathologyOutlines.com but they are independent of the PathologyOutlines.com textbook and are not peer reviewed by our Editorial Board.
Cancer images and disease overviews
Breast cancer
Breast cancer - grading, 18 September 2023
Inflammatory breast cancer, 27 March 2023
My mammogram, 8 September 2023
Gastrointestinal cancer (anus, appendix, colon, esophagus, gallbladder, liver, pancreas, small intestine, stomach)
Bile duct cancer, 18 December 2023
Liver cancer, 7 November 2023
What the medical community has learned from studying colorectal cancer, 20 March 2023
What the medical community has learned from studying pancreatic cancer, 1 April 2023
Genitourinary / adrenal cancer (adrenal gland, bladder, kidney, penis, prostate, testis)
Bladder cancer, 28 April 2023
Prostatic adenocarcinoma (prostate cancer), 21 March 2023
Head & neck cancer (ear, eye, larynx & trachea, mandible & maxilla, nasal cavity, oral cavity, salivary glands, thyroid & parathyroid)
Human papillomavirus (HPV) related cancers, 17 May 2023
Oral cavity cancer - Verrucous carcinoma, 8 May 2023
Leukemia and lymphoma (cancer of the bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen)
Diffuse large B cell lymphoma, an overview, 3 May 2023
Hodgkin lymphoma, an overview, 2 June 2023
Lymphoproliferative disorders - cancer-like conditions caused by immunodeficiency, 16 June 2023
Plasma cell myeloma, an overview, 4 September 2023
Skin cancer
Melanoma, 4 April 2023
Skin cancer, a case history, 5 February 2023
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