PROSTATE CANCER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prostate cancer mean? 

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

1. cancer of the prostate gland

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROSTATE CANCER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cancer of the prostate gland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

prostate cancer; prostatic adenocarcinoma

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

adenocarcinoma; glandular cancer; glandular carcinoma (malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium)

 Context examples 

Some antiandrogens are used to treat prostate cancer, and others are being studied for this use.

(Anti-Androgen, NCI Dictionary)

PP32R2 is expressed in prostate cancer.

(ANP32D Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

PRLR/PRL signaling pathway is frequently overexpressed in breast and prostate cancer.

(Anti-prolactin Receptor Antibody LFA102, NCI Thesaurus)

There are also health conditions that only affect men, such as prostate cancer and low testosterone.

(Men's Health, NIH)

Alteration in the expression of this gene is associated with development of prostate cancer.

(MIR23B wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Aberrant expression of the gene may be associated with breast and prostate cancers.

(ANKRD30A wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Many early prostate cancers require androgens for growth, but advanced prostate cancers are often androgen-independent.

(Androgen-independent, NCI Dictionary)

Administration of this vaccine leads to an induction of apoptosis through the expression of RTVP-1 and results in a reduction in cellular proliferation in prostate cancer cells.

(AdRTVP-1-Transduced Prostate Cancer Cell-Based Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon subcutaneous vaccination with the adenovirus-PSA prostate cancer vaccine, the adenovirus infects cells and expresses PSA.

(Adenovirus-PSA Prostate Cancer Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Overexpression of the AGR2 gene is associated with certain types of cancer such as breast and prostate cancer.

(AGR2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)