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Information about your cancer type

Select Your Cancer Type:

(most link out to National Cancer Institute)
Bladder Cancer
Bone Cancer
Brain & CNS Cancer
Breast Cancer
Cervical Cancer
Childhood Cancer
Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukemia (CMML)
Colorectal (Bowel) Cancer
Esophageal Cancer
Gallbladder Cancer
Head and Neck Cancer
Hodgkin Lymphoma
Kidney Cancer
Leukaemia
Liver Cancer
Lung Cancer
Malignant Mesothelioma
Melanoma (Skin) Cancer
Multiple Myeloma / Plasma Cell Neoplasm
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Ovarian Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
Penile Cancer
Prostate Cancer
Stomach Cancer
Testicular Cancer
Thyroid Cancer
Uterine Cancer / Endometrial
Vaginal Cancer
Vulvar Cancer

Identifying your cancer sub-type.

Many of the genes that contribute to cancer development fall into broad categories:

Tumor suppressor genes – BRCA1, BRCA2, p53 or TP53.
These are protective genes but they can mutate and turn into cancer cells.
Oncogenes. – HER2, RAS
These turn cells cancerous. Mutations in these genes are not inherited.
DNA repair genes – BRCA1, BRCA2, and p53
These fix mistakes made when DNA is copied. Many of them function as tumor suppressor genes. If a person has an error in a DNA repair gene, mistakes remain uncorrected. Then, the mistakes become mutations. These mutations may eventually lead to cancer, particularly mutations in tumor suppressor genes or oncogenes. Mutations in DNA repair genes may be inherited or acquired.