Conditions Giving Rise to Cancer
Find alphabetical list of conditions giving rise to cancer. Read more about cancer and types of cancer here…
Conditions Giving Rise to Cancer:
- Actinic Cheilitis Fact Sheet – can lead to squamous cell carcinoma (skin cancer)
- Actinic Keratosis Fact Sheet– can lead to squamous cell carcinoma (skin cancer)
- Atrophic Gastritis Fact Sheet – can lead to stomach cancer
- Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans (BXO) Fact Sheet – can lead to penile cancer
- Barrett’s Oesophagus Fact Sheet – can lead to oesophageal cancer
- Bowenoid Papulosis Fact Sheet – squamous cell carcinoma in situ (genitalia)
- Bowen’s Disease Fact Sheet – can lead to squamous cell carcinoma (skin cancer)
- Castleman Disease Fact Sheet – can lead to lymphoma
- Cervical Dysplasia Fact Sheet – can lead to cervical cancer
- Dyskeratosis Congenita Fact Sheet – can lead to leukaemia & other cancers
- Desmoid Fibromatosis Fact Sheet – is not cancerous, however, can invade other tissue
- Erythroplakia Fact Sheet – can lead to oral cavity cancers
- Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Fact Sheet – can lead to colon cancer
- Gorlin-Goltz Syndrome Fact Sheet– can lead to basal cell carcinoma (skin cancer)
- Leukoplakia Fact Sheet – can lead to oral cavity cancers
- Lichen Planus Fact Sheet – can lead to mouth, vulvar and penile Cancer
- Monoclonal Gammopathy of Unknown Significance (MGUS) – risk of developing into a blood cancer such as myeloma (cancer of plasma cells) or lymphoma (cancer of lymphatic system)
- Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) Fact Sheet – pre-leukaemic disorder
- Oral Submucous Fibrosis Fact Sheet – linked to oral cancers
- Penile Intraepithelial Neoplasia (PeIN) Fact Sheet – linked to penile cancer
- Polycythaemia Vera Fact Sheet – can lead to leukaemia
- Sideropenic Dysphagia Fact Sheet – can lead to oesohageal / pharyngeal cancer
- Solar Elastosis Fact Sheet – pre-cursor to squamous cell carcinoma (skin cancer)
- Symptomatic Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumour Fact Sheet – not cancerous but can grow and cause damage to the surrounding tissue and structures of the body
- Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP) Fact Sheet – may lead to multiple skin cancers during lifetime
Has Cancer Touched Your Life?
Cancer affects one in four South Africans, through diagnosis of family, friends, colleagues or self.
We want you to know that you are not alone and that we would like to support you and your loved ones, regardless of how cancer has touched your life.
Find info & online resources to help you fight cancer and please read more about CANSA’s Holistic Care & Support which is offered at our CANSA Care Centres countrywide.
