Cancer - lung - small cell; Small cell lung cancer; SCLC
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a fast-growing type of lung cancer. It spreads much more quickly than non-small cell lung cancer.
There are three different types of small cell lung cancer:
Small cell carcinoma (oat cell cancer)
Mixed small cell/large cell carcinoma
Combined small cell carcinoma
Most small cell lung cancers are the oat cell type.
Cancer Term:(malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth, invasion that intrudes upon and destroys adjacent tissues, and sometimes metastasis, or spreading to other locations in the body via lymph or blood. These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which do not invade or metastasize. Cancer-ar-foundation