Cervical cancer classification

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]

Overview

Cervical cancer arises within the epithelial cells, making it a carcinoma.

Classification

• Histologic subtypes of invasive cervical carcinoma include the following:

• squamous cell carcinoma (about 80-85%)
• adenocarcinoma
• adenosquamous carcinoma
• small cell carcinoma
• neuroendocrine tumour
• glassy cell carcinoma
• villoglandular adenocarcinoma

Non-carcinoma malignancies which can rarely occur in the cervix include

• melanoma
• lymphoma