| • | Breast Cancer
With more women now getting mammograms and with improved detection and treatment options, the rates of new cases and deaths from breast cancer have leveled off after years of slow-but-steady increases. |
| • | Cervical Cancer
Cervical cancer begins with abnormal, microscopic changes in cells in the outer layer of the cervix, called the epithelium. |
| • | Colorectal Cancer
Colon cancer and rectal cancer affect adjacent segments of the large intestine, through which food travels on its way out of the body after digestion. |
| • | Fallopian Tube Cancer
Another cancer that can strike the reproductive system of women. |
| • | Lymphoma (Hodgkin Disease and Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma)
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a group of about 30 different blood cancers. It is also called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, NHL, or lymphoma. |
| • | Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer, and accounts for 5 percent of all cancer deaths in women in the United States. |
| • | Skin Cancer
Skin cancer falls into two broad areas: non-melanoma skin cancer (basal cell cancer and squamous cell cancer), and melanoma. These different types of cancer are defined by the skin cells involved. |
| • | Uterine Cancer
Cancer of the uterus, the second most common cancer of the female reproductive system, strikes women at or past menopause. |
| • | Vaginal Cancer
Cancers of the vagina are extremely rare. They fall into the following two categories: clear cell adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma. |
