The difference between malignant tumor and cancer

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What is the difference between malignant tumor and cancer? Because of people's fear of cancer, sometimes deliberately to avoid them, so many people think that cancer is a malignant tumor, malignant tumor is cancer. In fact, oncology hospital experts say that cancer and malignant tumors are not the same thing. Today I would like to talk about the difference between cancer and malignant tumor, so that we can have a more rational understanding of cancer and malignant tumor.

The difference between malignant tumor and cancer

1. From a professional point of view, cancer is only one kind of malignant tumor, in fact, "malignant tumor" ≠ "cancer". In addition to cancer, there is also a large class of killers in malignant tumors, which are called sarcomas. Osteosarcoma, for example.

2. In the pathological diagnosis, the malignant tumor from epithelial tissue is called "cancer", while the malignant tumor from mesenchymal tissue is called "sarcoma". Cancer is more common in the elderly, while sarcoma is more common in adolescents.

3. According to the different types of epithelium, cancer can be divided into squamous cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, transitional cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma. For example, esophageal cancer is mostly squamous cell carcinoma; gastric cancer is mostly adenocarcinoma; bladder cancer is mostly transitional cell carcinoma.

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It can be seen that although there is no word "cancer" in the name of diagnosis of many diseases, it may also be a malignant tumor, which needs special treatment as soon as possible. We can't think that if there is no word "cancer" in the report, we can't take it lightly. It is hoped that the above contents will be helpful to understand the difference between malignant tumor and cancer.