Diseases & Health Conditions
Educational information about diseases, symptoms, and related treatments
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (also called ALL or ALL leukemia) is a cancer of the blood cells. You...
Acute myeloid leukaemia
Acute myeloid leukaemia, also called AML, is a cancer of the blood cells. If you have it, your body...
Anal cancer
Anal cancer is a cancer that starts in the anus. The anus is the opening at the end of the large bow...
Bile duct cancer (cholangiocarcinoma)
Bile duct cancer, also called cholangiocarcinoma, is a rare cancer that starts in the lining of the...
Bladder cancer
Bladder cancer is a cancer that starts in the bladder, the hollow, muscular organ that collects and...
Bone cancer
Primary bone cancer is a cancer that starts in a bone. It's sometimes called a bone sarcoma. This is...
Bowel cancer
Bowel cancer starts in the bowel, which is part of the digestive system. The bowel is divided into t...
Brain tumours
A primary brain tumour is a tumour that starts in the brain itself. The brain controls how we think,...
Breast cancer in men
What is breast cancer? Breast cancer in men is rare. Each year, about 375 men are diagnosed with bre...
Breast cancer in women
Each year, about 55,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK. It's more common in women...
Cancer and your emotions
- How does cancer affect your emotions? - Physical symptoms and emotions - Do feelings affect cancer...
Cervical cancer
Cervical cancer develops very slowly from abnormal cell changes in the cervix. These changes don't c...
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia
Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (also called CLL or CLL leukaemia) is the most common type of leukaemi...
Chronic myeloid leukaemia
Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is a cancer of the white blood cells. It starts in the blood stem ce...
Ewing sarcoma
Ewing sarcoma is a type of primary bone cancer, which is also called bone sarcoma. Sarcomas are rare...
Eye cancer
Eye cancer is rare. About 850 people are diagnosed with it in the UK each year. There are several di...
Gallbladder cancer
Gallbladder cancer is rare. Each year, about 1,100 people in the UK are diagnosed with it, most ofte...
Head and neck cancer
What is head and neck cancer? Head and neck cancer is a general term for a group of different cance...
Hodgkin lymphoma
Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of blood cancer. It starts when blood cells called lymphocytes become abn...
Kaposi’s sarcoma
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a type of soft tissue sarcoma. It usually affects the: - skin - lining of t...
Kidney cancer
The kidneys are part of the urinary system. They filter waste from the blood and make pee. Kidney c...
Laryngeal (larynx) cancer
The larynx is also called the voice box. It sits in the neck, above the windpipe (trachea) and in fr...
Liver cancer
What is liver cancer? Liver cancer is cancer that starts in the liver itself. Doctors sometimes cal...
Lung cancer
Cancer that begins in the lung is known as primary lung cancer. The lungs are the organs you use to...