Other conditions

Fibrocystic breast changes are a non cancerous (benign) condition.

Courvoisier syndrome is also called Courvoisier's law or Courvoisier's sign. It means that you have jaundice and a gallbladder that is enlarged but is not painful.

Spitz naevus is a rare type of mole that is non cancerous (benign).

Angiomyxomas are a rare type of soft tissue tumour (lump). They are not thought of as cancer because they usually grow quite slowly and they don't usually spread to other parts of the body.

Lipomas are non cancerous lumps caused by an overgrowth of fat cells.

Gorlin syndrome is also called naevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome. It's a rare condition where people might develop a type of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma.

Barrett’s oesophagus means that some cells in the lining of your food pipe have started to change. In a small number of people these cells may develop into oesophageal cancer over a long period of time.

A schwannoma is a non cancerous (benign) tumour of the tissue that covers nerves, called the nerve sheath.