Throughout this Web site, the words TUMOR and CANCER are used interchangeably. Technically, a tumor is just a swelling that may or may not be a cancer. Cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell growth that can be benign (not invasive and does not spread) or malignant (usually invasive into surrounding tissue and capable of spreading to other areas of the body).

For each tumor type, specific terminology is used to denote the origin of the tumor and whether the tumor is benign or malignant. Tumors can develop from any normal tissue type; therefore there are a considerable number of different tumor types.

To better understand cancer terminology, visit the CANCER DICTIONARY at the website of the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Health, http://cancer.gov/dictionary/db_alpha.aspx?expand=A .


Following are additional resources:

The Veterinary Cancer Society
http://www.vetcancersociety.org/

The American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine
http://www.acvim.org/

The American College of Veterinary Surgeons
http://www.acvs.org/

The Comparative Oncology Research Exchange at Cornell University
http://www.vet.cornell.edu/cancer/index.html

The National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Health
http://www.nci.nih.gov/

The American Cancer Society
http://www.cancer.org/

The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
http://www.mskcc.org

The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center


The AVMA Vaccine Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force
http://www.avma.org/vafstf/

The Association of Cancer Online Resources
http://www.acor.org/

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
http://www.komen.org/

The Brain Tumor Society
http://www.tbts.org/

Cancer Care
http://www.cancercare.org/

Ronald McDonald House Charities


Animal Cancer Care
http://www.animalcancercare.com.au/

Animal Cancer Institute
http://www.animalcancerinstitute.com/index.html