Re: medical terms
- From: "mb" <azythos2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 7 May 2006 13:13:56 -0700
Katie wrote:
....
Stephen, I have a medical secretary background. All cancers are
carcinomas.
Nope. All carcinomas are cancers. Not the other way around.
Carcinoma is a tumor arising from epithelial, i.e. all kinds of
covering tissue or glands.
Skin cancer is mainly referred to as melanoma.
Only if it is melanoma, see Weil's post.
That being said, it is totally irrelevant to the patient if the origin
of his cancer is in cover or gland tissue or not. The relevant part is
what this means in terms of the patient's future, and that is not
automatically tied to the carcinoma or non-carcinoma character. Using
the higher category of "cancer" is enough there (provided one adds some
estimate of the prognosis).
As in: "skin cancer arising from the pigment cells (melanoma) means a
very bleak future as opposed to skin cancer from other tissues
(carcinoma), mostly curable".
.
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