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  1. Adnexal carcinomas

    Sebaceous carcinoma

    A rare cancer of oil glands. On the eyelid it can mimic a chalazion or chronic blepharitis. Extraocular tumours may signal Muir-Torre syndrome.

    1,607 words

  2. Small cell lung cancer

    Small cell lung cancer

    A fast-growing neuroendocrine lung cancer, almost always in people who smoked. It often has already spread at diagnosis and is treated as a systemic disease.

    3,197 words

  3. Small bowel & anus

    Small-bowel adenocarcinoma

    Small-bowel adenocarcinoma is a rare small-intestine cancer. This entry covers Crohn, Lynch, coeliac disease, and treatment approaches.

    4,498 words

  4. Soft-tissue sarcomas

    Soft-tissue sarcoma

    A rare group of cancers that start in connective tissues such as muscle, fat, nerves, and fibrous tissue, rather than in organs lined by epithelium.

    3,533 words

  5. Non-small cell lung cancer

    Squamous cell carcinoma of the lung

    An NSCLC that usually arises in the central airways and is strongly linked to smoking. It is a different disease from squamous cell carcinoma of the skin.

    3,690 words

  6. Keratinocyte carcinomas

    Squamous Cell Carcinoma

    1,894 words

  7. Melanoma

    Subungual Melanoma

    5,071 words

  8. Melanoma

    Superficial spreading melanoma

    The most common subtype of melanoma. It usually grows sideways in the skin first, as an irregular patch, before it grows deeper. Early surgery is the main treatment.

    2,929 words

  9. Soft-tissue sarcomas

    Synovial sarcoma

    A rare aggressive soft-tissue sarcoma of young adults. Despite the name, it does not start from joint lining. Most cases carry an SS18–SSX gene fusion.

    2,874 words