cancer
MONDO:0004992Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names cancer yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A tumor composed of atypical neoplastic, often pleomorphic cells that invade other tissues. Malignant neoplasms often metastasize to distant anatomic sites and may recur after excision. The most common malignant neoplasms are carcinomas (adenocarcinomas or squamous cell carcinomas), Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphomas, leukemias, melanomas, and sarcomas.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0004992), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (33)
- anaplastic cancer
- blastoma
- cancer of unknown primary site
- carcinoma
- cardiovascular cancer
- childhood malignant neoplasm
- digestive system cancer
- head and neck cancer
- high grade malignant neoplasm
- immune system cancer
- integumentary system cancer
- lipomatous cancer
- malignant adenoma
- malignant endocrine neoplasm
- malignant germ cell tumor
- malignant giant cell tumor
- malignant glomus tumor
- malignant mesenchymoma
- malignant mesothelioma
- malignant mixed neoplasm
- malignant soft tissue neoplasm
- malignant spindle cell neoplasm
- malignant urinary system neoplasm
- musculoskeletal system cancer
- nervous system cancer
- peritoneum cancer
- refractory malignant neoplasm
- reproductive system cancer
- respiratory system cancer
- retroperitoneal cancer
- sarcoma
- secondary malignant neoplasm
- thoracic cancer
Other names
11 names
Resolves to: cancer
- Also called
- CAcell type cancermalignancymalignant growthmalignant neoplasmmalignant neoplasm (disease)malignant neoplastic diseasemalignant tumormalignant tumourneoplasm (disease), malignantneoplasm, malignant