blood cancers
Lymphomas and leukemias
Blood cancers are malignancies that affect blood, bone marrow, or the lymphatic system—including leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma.
Unlike solid tumors, these cancers typically don't form masses but instead disrupt normal blood cell production or immune function: Her blood cancer was caught early through routine bloodwork.
- bone marrowBlood cell birthplace
- leukemiaMalignancy of blood-forming tissues
- myelomaMalignant plasma cell neoplasm
- hematologyScience of blood disorders
- lymphomaCancer from immune cells
tumors · oncology · malignancy · anemias · neoplasm · tumor markers · chemotherapy · chemo brain · stem cell transplant · clinical trial · radiation therapy · survival rate · platelet count · targeted therapy · relapse · Hodgkin lymphoma · biopsy · bone marrow biopsy
- blood disordersanemia, sickle cell anemia, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, leukemia
- bloodplasma, platelet, platelets, hemoglobin, RBC
- tumor pathologymalignant tumor, benign tumor, carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, sarcoma
blood cancerssolid tumors
Distinct cancerous tissue masses
carcinomas · sarcomas · breast cancer · lung cancer · colon cancer
blood, bloods, bloody, bloodied, bloodying, bloodier, bloodiest, bloodless, bloodline