PANCREATIC CANCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pancreatic cancer mean? 

• PANCREATIC CANCER (noun)
  The noun PANCREATIC CANCER has 1 sense:

1. cancer of the pancreas

  Familiarity information: PANCREATIC CANCER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PANCREATIC CANCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cancer of the pancreas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("pancreatic cancer" is a kind of...):

carcinoma (any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer)

 Context examples 

A pathologic finding about one or more characteristics of exocrine or endocrine pancreatic cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v7 classification system as they pertain to staging of regional lymph nodes.

(Exocrine and Endocrine Pancreatic Cancer Pathologic Regional Lymph Nodes TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)

A pathologic finding about one or more characteristics of exocrine or endocrine pancreatic cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v7 classification system as they pertain to staging of the primary tumor.

(Exocrine and Endocrine Pancreatic Cancer Pathologic Primary Tumor TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)

A clinical finding about one or more characteristics of exocrine or endocrine pancreatic cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v7 classification system as they pertain to distant metastases.

(Exocrine and Endocrine Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Distant Metastasis TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)

A pathologic finding about one or more characteristics of exocrine or endocrine pancreatic cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v7 classification system.

(Exocrine and Endocrine Pancreatic Cancer Pathologic TNM Finding v7, NCI Thesaurus)

A pathologic finding about one or more characteristics of exocrine pancreatic cancer, following the rules of the TNM AJCC v6 classification system as they pertain to distant metastases.

(Exocrine Pancreatic Cancer Pathologic Distant Metastasis TNM Finding v6, NCI Thesaurus)

They found that metarrestin could block the way prostate and pancreatic cancer cells spread.

(Scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis, National Institutes of Health)

Mesothelin is overexpressed on all mesotheliomas as well as many ovarian and pancreatic cancers while minimally expressed on normal tissue.

(Anti-mesothelin Antibody-Drug Conjugate BAY 94-9343, NCI Thesaurus)

LY29311 has been shown to induce apoptosis and inhibits cellular proliferation in LTB4R expressing cells, such as pancreatic cancer cells.

(Etalocib, NCI Thesaurus)

A humanized monoclonal antibody directed against the pancreatic cancer antigen MUC1, with potential antineoplastic activity.

(Clivatuzumab, NCI Thesaurus)

It is also used with gemcitabine hydrochloride to treat pancreatic cancer that cannot be removed by surgery or has spread to other parts of the body.

(CP-358,774, NCI Dictionary)