By no means a single disease with a single treatment, there are over 200 types of cancer. Each type has its own name and treatment. Click on the links below to find out more about them.
Actinic keratosis is not a skin cancer but it can develop into one. It is also called solar keratosis because it is caused by long-term exposure of skin to ultraviolet rays contained in the sunlight.
Cancer in the adrenal glands can affect how the body produces hormones.
Find out about anal cancer and the symptoms this rare form of cancer can cause.
Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of skin cancer and is usually very slow growing.
Read more about bile duct cancer and the symptoms of this rare type of cancer.
Read more about bladder cancer and the treatments available for it.
There isn’t just one type of cancer of the blood – there are many different blood cancers.
Bone cancers can be primary or secondary cancers.
Read more about this type of cancer, also known as colorectal cancer.
Bowen's disease is a skin lesion that affects the top layer of the skin and can rarely develop into skin cancer called squamous cell carcinoma.
Read more about brain tumours and how they can affect your body.
Read about this rare form of breast cancer that can develop in men.
Find out the facts and symptoms of breast cancer.
Find out more about secondary bone cancer, also known as bone secondaries.
Read more about secondary brain tumours and their symptoms.
Find out about breast cancer spreading to other parts of the body.
Read about this rare type of cancer affecting the neuroendocrine system.
Find out about this type of cancer affecting over 2,900 women each year in the UK.
Ear cancer is very rare and is usually a type of skin cancer.
Find out about this type of cancer, affecting the endocrine system.
Eye cancer is usually a type of skin cancer, called melanoma.
Read about this rare form of cancer that usually starts in the lining of the gall bladder.
The gastro oesophageal junction is in between the oesophagus and the stomach.
Germ cells start in egg cells and sperm cells. This type of cancer is a germ cell tumour.
Read about the two main types of oesophageal cancer.
Find out about cancer affecting tissues or organs in the head and neck.
Find out about this form of cancer which affects over 9,000 people in the UK every year.
Read about this rare type of cancer that usually affects children.
Read more information on AML, a rare form of leukaemia.
Find out more about the most common form of leukaemia.
Find out about this slow developing form of cancer.
Find out more about this type of cancer that affects the throat or neck.
Read about chronic and acute leukaemias.
Read about signs and symptoms of liver cancer.
Read more information on the main types of lung cancer and some rarer lung cancers.
Read about this type of cancer which affects the body's immune system.
Find more information about this cancer of the lymphatic system.
Read about a cancer that has started somewhere else in the body and spread to the liver.
Read about how cancer can spread to the lungs from another part of the body.
Read about this type of cancer, affecting the skin.
Read more about this type of cancer which affects the mesothelium.
Mouth cancers can develop anywhere inside the mouth like the lip or tongue.
Find out about this type of cancer, also known as multiple myeloma or myelomatosis.
Nasal cancers are cancers that develop inside the nose.
Nasopharyngeal cancer starts in the upper part of the throat.
Read about the types of cancer affecting the neuroendocrine system.
Read about the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer.
Find out more about this advanced type of cancer and how it can affect other organs in your body.
Find more information on cancer of the pancreas.
Read about this rare form of cancer, symptoms of penile cancer and how doctors can diagnose the disease.
Find more information on the most common type of cancer in men.
Find out about this form of cancer that starts in the appendix.
Cancer that starts in the salivary glands is very rare.
Read about this tumour that starts in the nerve sheath.
When a cancer spreads elsewhere, this is a secondary cancer.
Find out more information about when cancer spreads to the lymph nodes.
Find out about the three main types of skin cancer.
Find out more information about this rare type of cancer.
Read more about this type of cancer affecting the central nervous system.
Squamous cell carcinoma is a type of skin cancer.
Read about adenocarcinoma, the most common type of stomach cancer.
Read more information about symptoms and how to carry out a self-examination.
Read about this rare form of endocrine cancer that affects the thymus gland, located in the neck.
Read about this uncommon form of cancer affecting about 2,300 people every year in the UK.
Find out more about this form of cancer affecting the windpipe.
Find out about CUP, a term which covers many different types of cancer.
Vaginal cancer is cancer that starts in the vagina.
Read about this rare from of cancer.
Read about the symptoms and risk factors involved in this type of cancer
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