Main types of cancer that affect human

What are the main types of cancer that affect humans?

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Excluding skin cancer, which are the more easily detected and so cases are registered in the larger number, the main kinds of cancer in men are lung cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer; in women, breast cancer, rectal and colon cancer and lung cancer are of huge incidence. Other common cancers are ovarian cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, esophageal cancer, brain cancer and the leukemias and lymphomas (blood cancers).

Epithelial cancers, of the skin as well as of internal organs, are more ordinary since epithelial tissues are more exposed to carcinogens.

The proportional incidence of many types of cancers differs according to considered population.

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