Step 1 Content | Neoplasia
System |
Common Benign Tumors |
Common Malignant Tumors |
General Neoplasia |
- Adenomas (glandular origin) - Lipomas (fat tissue) - Leiomyomas (smooth muscle) - Fibromas (connective tissue) - Hemangiomas (blood vessels) |
- Carcinomas (epithelial origin: squamous cell, adenocarcinoma) - Sarcomas (mesenchymal origin) - Lymphomas (Hodgkin, non-Hodgkin) - Leukemias (myeloid, lymphoid) - Metastatic cancers (spread from primary site) |
Hematopoietic & Lymphoreticular |
- Benign lymphoid hyperplasia - Splenic hemangioma |
- Leukemia (ALL, AML, CLL, CML) - Lymphoma (Hodgkin’s, Non-Hodgkin’s) - Multiple myeloma |
Central & Peripheral Nervous |
- Meningioma (meninges) - Schwannoma (nerve sheath) - Pituitary adenoma (hormone-secreting tumor) |
- Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) - Astrocytoma - Oligodendroglioma - Medulloblastoma (children) |
Skin & Connective Tissue |
- Seborrheic keratosis - Dermatofibroma - Lipoma (subcutaneous fat) |
- Melanoma (aggressive, pigmented skin cancer) - Squamous cell carcinoma - Basal cell carcinoma - Kaposi sarcoma (HHV-8 related) |
Musculoskeletal |
- Osteochondroma (cartilage-capped bone tumor) - Giant cell tumor of bone |
- Osteosarcoma (long bones, aggressive) - Ewing sarcoma (childhood bone cancer) - Chondrosarcoma (cartilage tumor) |
Respiratory |
- Pulmonary hamartoma (cartilage, connective tissue) |
- Non-small cell lung carcinoma (adenocarcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, large cell carcinoma) - Small cell lung carcinoma (highly aggressive) - Mesothelioma (asbestos-related pleural tumor) |
Cardiovascular |
- Cardiac myxoma (most common benign heart tumor) |
- Angiosarcoma (malignant vascular tumor) - Hemangiosarcoma |
Gastrointestinal |
- Hepatic hemangioma (benign liver lesion) - Colonic adenoma (precancerous polyp) - Gastric leiomyoma |
- Colorectal adenocarcinoma - Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) - Pancreatic adenocarcinoma - Gastric carcinoma |
Renal/Urinary |
- Renal oncocytoma - Angiomyolipoma (associated with tuberous sclerosis) |
- Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) - Wilms tumor (pediatric kidney cancer) - Urothelial carcinoma (bladder cancer) |
Reproductive |
- Uterine leiomyoma (fibroids) - Ovarian cystadenoma - Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) |
- Cervical carcinoma (HPV-associated) - Ovarian carcinoma (serous, mucinous, clear cell) - Testicular cancer (seminoma, non-seminomatous germ cell tumors) - Prostate adenocarcinoma |
Endocrine |
- Thyroid adenoma (follicular adenoma) - Pituitary adenoma |
- Thyroid carcinoma (papillary, follicular, medullary, anaplastic) - Adrenal cortical carcinoma - Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (insulinoma, glucagonoma) |
MAR 2025