Classification (List in www.humpath.com)

 epithelial tumors

• benign epithelial tumors
• malignant epithelial tumors (Carcinomas)

 mesenchymal tumors

• benign mesenchymal tumors
• malignant mesenchymal tumors (Sarcomas)

 blastemal tumors (embryonic tumors or Blastomas)
 melanocytic tumors
 germinal tumors
 cerebral tumors
 hematopietic and lymphoid tumors

• leukemias
• lymphoid neoplasms (Lymphomas)

Tumoral cells

 fusiform cell tumors
 Round cell tumors

• small round cell tumors
• large round cell tumors
  • rhabdoid cell tumors

 clear cell tumors

Localization

 cutaneous tumors
 digestive tumors
 renal tumors
 salivary gland tumors
 soft tissue tumors
 osseous tumors
 nervous tumors
 placental tumors

Features

 tumoral vascularization (tumors vascularization)
 tumoral phenotype
 fetal tumors and neonatal tumors
 tissular specificity of tumors
 tumoral cells
 tumoral stroma

Miscellaneous

 neonatal tumors
 Cystic tumors

Items

 synopsis
 immunochemistry
 cytogenetics
 molecular biology

• fusion proteins
• allelotype (LOH loci)
• inactivated genes
• activated genes
• underexpressed genes
• overexpressed genes

References

 Albertson DG, Collins C, McCormick F, Gray JW. Chromosome aberrations in solid tumors. Nat Genet. 2003 Aug;34(4):369-76. PMID: #12923544#

 Mitelman F, Johansson B, Mertens F. Fusion genes and rearranged genes as a linear function of chromosome aberrations in cancer. Nat Genet. 2004 Apr;36(4):331-4. PMID: #15054488#