### condition | illness | disease | cancer:

Different cancer
* can be very different from each other with a few common characteristics
  - develop from each kind of cell
* have different causes for any individual
  - risk factors
  - signs, all of which depend upon the extent of the cancer
* respond differently to radiotherapy.

### condition | illness | disease | cancer:

Endometrial cancer
* Most endometrial cancer presents at an early stage and is highly curable.
* can result if estrogen replacement is taken alone, without progesterone.
* develops in the tissue lining the uterus
  - inside the uterus and is the most curable form of gynecological cancer
* is cancer of the lining of the uterus
  - carcinoma
* is caused by too much estrogen
  - in the lining of the uterus and Ovarian cancer in the ovaries
  - considered an estrogen-dependent disease
  - curable if it's detected at an early enough stage
  - diseases
  - increased two to three fold in nulliparous women
  - more common in white women when compared to black women
  - primarily a disease of postmenopausal women
  - seen mostly in women between the ages of fifty and seventy
* is the most common gynecologic malignancy
  - gynecological cancer in the United States
  - frequent gynecologic cancer in Canada
  - thought to be caused by hormone imbalances
* occurs more often in patients with increased female hormone
  - most often in the two decades after the menopause and is rare before it

Esophageal cancer
* affects the tube connecting the throat to the stomach.
* can also spread to the lungs, liver, stomach, and other parts of the body.
* is diseases
  - more common in men
* is one of the cancers whose incidence is rising in North America
  - deadliest cancers
  - treated with surgery, radiation therapy or chemotherapy
* major cause of suffering and death in China.

Follicular cancer
* have a poorer prognosis than papillary tumours and occur in an older age group.
* is the second most common form of thyroid cancer.

Gastrointestinal cancer
* general term for several different cancers of the digestive system.
* remains a significant public health threat in developed countries.

Gynecologic cancer
* Gynecologic Cancers Learn all about the cancers that affect women exclusively.
* are cancers of a woman's reproductive organs
  - the fourth most common cancers in American women today
* is cancer of the cervix, ovaries, uterus, fallopian tubes, vagina or vulva.
* refers to all cancers of the female genital tract
  - any malignancy arising in a woman's reproductive organs
* study in contrasts.

Gynecological cancer
* are a major concern
  - cancers located in a woman's pelvis or reproductive system
* is cancer that afflicts the reproductive organs of a woman.

Invasive cancer
* is treated entirely differently than dysplasia
  - very rare
* relies on the ducts within the secretory cells.

Kidney cancer
* can be difficult to diagnose
  - sometimes cause a mass in the abdomen
* is resistant to traditional chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and radiation therapy.

Laryngeal cancer
* Most laryngeal cancers are squamous cell carcinomas, and the most common site is the glottis.
* can occur in numerous locations in the throat.
* is four times more common in men than women
  - the term given to a malignant tumor of the larynx, or voice box