how many types of cancer are there in body?

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many, you can have several types of cancer for most different tissues in your body.

You can have carcinoma, cancer arising from epithelium, or sarcoma, cancer arising from connective tissue. Any tissue in the body, lung, kidney, cervix, prostate, even muscles and the heart can have tumors of this type, which have specific names depending where they are. Some organs, such as the lungs, further classify tumors based on which cells are involved, and what the tumor cells look like.

You can have lymphoma or leukemias, which are pretty much the same thing, cancers of the white blood cells.

So to answer your question, many many more that can be counted or named. Cancer isn't really divided by 'types' in mayn cases, it's more like a spectrum, diagnosed by where it is, and the types of cells involved.

you can get cancer of every part

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