Evidence-Based Medical Encyclopedia
Explore thousands of diseases with authoritative clinical information from WHO, CDC, NIH, and international medical guidelines. Every condition features an interactive journey from diagnosis to treatment.
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Oncology
Small Cell Lung Cancer
A very fast-growing, aggressive lung cancer strongly linked to heavy smoking, presenting centrally in the chest and often spreading early to the brain and other organs.
Multiple Myeloma
A blood cancer involving malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow that causes bone destruction, kidney failure, anemia, and hypercalcemia.
Ovarian Cancer
A highly deadly cancer of the female reproductive glands, usually diagnosed late because its early symptoms are vague like bloating and pelvic pain.
Breast Cancer
A malignancy of the breast ducts or lobules, highly treatable when caught early, whose management depends on the presence of estrogen, progesterone, and HER2 receptors.
Colorectal Cancer
Cancer of the large intestine or rectum, typically growing from pre-cancerous polyps over many years.
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
An aggressive cancer of the myeloid blood cells where immature myeloblasts rapidly fill the bone marrow, causing severe anemia, infections, and bleeding.
Hypercalcemia of Malignancy
A life-threatening metabolic complication of advanced cancer causing very high calcium levels due to tumor-secreted hormones (PTHrP) or bone metastases.
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia
A clonal bone marrow disease driven by the Philadelphia chromosome (BCR-ABL1), leading to massive overproduction of white blood cells and curable with targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitors.
Kaposi Sarcoma
A cancer caused by a virus (HHV-8) that produces purple skin lesions and affects internal organs, mostly in people with weakened immune systems like advanced HIV.
Testicular Cancer
A highly curable cancer found mostly in young men, presenting as a painless lump in the testicle, requiring surgery and potentially chemotherapy.
Melanoma
A deadly form of skin cancer that starts in pigment cells, often looking like an irregular, changing mole, and requires surgical removal before it spreads.
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
A rapid-onset blood cancer where immature white blood cells (lymphoblasts) multiply uncontrollably in the bone marrow, crowding out healthy cells.