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cancer
Group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth and spread
Also known as malignant neoplasm · malignant tumor · primary cancer
- Treatments
- prednisolone
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- , dexamethasone
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- , cholecalciferol
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- +4 more
- prednisolone
- Specialty
Overview
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All data
150 statements · 28% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Subclass of
- disease of cellular proliferation
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- non-communicable disease sourcing circumstances: mainly
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Sources- 1.“Common Cancer Myths and Misconceptions - NCI”cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/mythsRetrieved 2026-07-02
- disorder relative to: cell
- disease of cellular proliferation
- ICPC 2 ID
- A79
- Named after
- crab language: Ancient Greek · object named as: καρκῐ́νος
- Crustacea applies to name of subject: рак
- ICD-9-CM
- 199
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- 199
- Native label
- καρκῐ́νος discovered by: Hippocrates
- Different from
- carcinoma applies to name of object: 癌
On other databases
96 identifiers linking cancer across the web's reference databases
- ABC News topic IDcancer
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID20517
- AniDB tag ID422
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID294903291
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/3118
- Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors ID3878
- Ávvir topic IDborasdavda
- Babelio subject ID2230
- BabelNet ID00015180n
- Banglapedia ID (English edition)Cancer
- BBC News topic IDcywd23g0q11t
- BBC Things ID583f320b-e25a-433c-ad39-b637a4f27866
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11931105q
- BNCF Thesaurus ID21132
- Canadian Encyclopedia article IDcancer
- Cultureel Woordenboek IDlevenswetenschappen-en-geneeskunde/kanker
- Dagens Nyheter topic IDcancer
- Dewey Decimal Classification362.196994
- Disease Ontology IDDOID:162
- DiseasesDB28843
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDscience/cancer-disease
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDcancer-vue-d-ensemble
- Encyclopedia of Korean Culture IDE0035149
- EuroVoc ID5104
- FactGrid item IDQ246378
- Fandom article IDdisease:Cancer
- France 24 topic ID (French)cancer
- Freebase ID/m/0qcr0
- GND ID4073781-0
- Golden ID (archived)Cancer-PD8EV
- Google News topics IDCAAqJAgKIh5DQkFTRUFvS0wyMHZNREZ3YzNaMGR4SUNaVzRvQUFQAQ
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDcancer-1
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0087750
- Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID3009
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDzlokachestvennaia-opukhol-5303c6
- Harper's tagcancer
- IAB code314
- ICD-10 IDC00-C97
- ICD-10-CMC80
- ICD-11 ID (Foundation)1594217552
- ICD-O8000/3
- IMDb keywordcancer
- IPTC NewsCodemediatopic/20000447
- J9U entity ID987007283224705171
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID3960
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)cancer
- KBpedia IDCancer
- Klexikon article IDKrebs_(Medizin)
- Le Figaro tag IDcancer
- Lex IDkræft
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85019492
- Lille norske leksikon IDkreft
- MedlinePlus ID001289
- Museum-digital tag ID17979
- NALT ID702
- Namuwiki ID암
- National Historical Museums of Sweden IDterm/778c57ac-7536-4130-a8ff-ec03cdff1485
- National Library of Latvia ID000085858
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX526004
- NCI Thesaurus IDC9305
- NDL Authority ID00562220
- NE.se IDcancer
- New Georgia Encyclopedia IDscience-medicine/cancer
- NHS Health A to Z IDcancer
- NL CR AUT IDph134894
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning479
- Open Library subject IDcancer
- OpenAlex IDC121608353
- Out tag IDcancer
- Quora topic IDCancer
- ScienceDirect topic IDmedicine-and-dentistry/cancer
- Springer Nature Subjects Taxonomy IDcancer
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy IDcancer
- Store medisinske leksikon IDcancer
- STW Thesaurus for Economics ID18899-3
- Subredditcancer
- SVKKL authority IDh0007993-maligni-nadorova-onemocneni
- TED topic IDcancer
- Teen Vogue tag IDcancer
- The Advocate tag IDcancer
- Treccani's Dizionario di Medicina IDcancro
- U.S. National Archives Identifier10636616
- UK Archival Thesaurus IDf2/mt285/649/3032/715
- UK Parliament thesaurus ID8937
- UMLS CUIC0006826
- UN Thesaurus ID1000793
- UNESCO Thesaurus IDconcept4587
- Uppslagsverket Finland IDCancer
- Vikidia article IDeu:Minbizi
- WikiKids IDKanker
