Cancer Society NZ — Types of cancer

Bowel cancer

Bowel cancer is cancer in any part of the large bowel, which includes the colon and rectum.

Melanoma of the skin is the most serious of the three common types of skin cancer.

Breast cancer forms in the cells of the breast tissue. It can occur in women and, rarely, in men.

Around 4,000 men in Aotearoa get the news that they have prostate cancer each year.

Lung cancer is cancer of some of the cells in part of the lungs and begins in the lining of the airw…

A brain tumour is the growth of abnormal cells in a part of the brain.

Pancreatic cancer is cancer that starts in the pancreas, the part of your digestive system that sits…

Advanced cancer is when cancer cells have spread from where they first grew to other parts of the bo…

Bladder cancer begins in the cells inside the bladder, the part of the body which holds the pee (uri…

There are many types of blood cancer. The main types are leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

Bone cancer, also called primary bone cancer, begins in the bones or cartilage.

Sometimes cancer spreads through the body, and doctors are not able to find where it first started.

Cervical cancer begins in the cervix, which is part of the female reproductive system.

Eye melanoma, also called ocular melanoma, is a cancer of the eye.

Gynaecological cancers are cancers of the female reproductive organs, including uterine cancer, ovar…

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