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Asked by marrowhead123 to Charlotte, Dhvanil, Frank, Jim, Leila on 10 Mar 2013. This question was also asked by beckyisnotatree.
Question: how many types of cancer anre there?
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Dhvanil Karia answered on 10 Mar 2013:
Broad categorization based on known occurrences in UK suggests that there are mainly 28 types of cancer (source: cancer research UK). These relate to cancer in different parts of the human body. These cancer diseases are further sub categorized based on their physiology(how the cancer is growing/what particular group of functional cells have malfunctioned), size and spread in other systems/parts of the body.
As a small exercise I would recommend you to
Google “types of cancer” and see what other sources of information say about different types of cancer.
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Leila Nichol answered on 11 Mar 2013:
There are a lot, as Dhvanil says, but the important thing is catching them early, this means there is the highest chance of successful treatment. With modern developments in drugs and advanced techniques in radiotherapy, treatment outcomes are improving all the time!
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Jim O Doherty answered on 11 Mar 2013:
It depends on how they get classified, but I reckon a few hundred in total. Cellular biologists keep discovering new and different types all the time so the list is constantly growing. Some of the types are not very different from each other, but in order to develop drugs to treat them we need to know exactly how they behave
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Charlotte Kemp answered on 11 Mar 2013:
Lots! If you think about all of the different types of cell in the body then, as a cancer first forms from the mutation of a cell, then there are as many types of cancers as there are cells.
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Frank Soboczenski answered on 12 Mar 2013:
Sadly, I must say that there are so many I think over a hundred if I remember correctly. Leila is right, the best change to a successful treatment is early detection!
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