The body
- What this shows
- Where each cancer is recorded as starting, how far each stage has reached, and what is being studied there.
- Read from
- NCI’s thesaurus for where a disease is filed, ClinicalTrials.gov for what is being tried, and the Genomic Data Commons for tissue that was actually counted.
- What it cannot say
- Nothing here follows patients over time. No public source we hold records the same people moving from one stage to the next, so no order shown should be read as a sequence.
Pick a place — explore the schematic
Search for a place, turn the figure, and filter its routes. See what begins there, what is being tried on it, where tissue was actually taken from, and the spread catalogued in and out.
What one disease becomes
The transformations SEER records between blood and lymph diseases, and where the paths converge.
Start with where it begins in the body, then the kind. Stepping the stages marks how far that stage has reached.