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PROSTATIC ADENOCARCINOMA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does prostatic adenocarcinoma mean?
• PROSTATIC ADENOCARCINOMA (noun)
The noun PROSTATIC ADENOCARCINOMA has 1 sense:
1. cancer of the prostate gland
Familiarity information: PROSTATIC ADENOCARCINOMA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PROSTATIC ADENOCARCINOMA (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cancer of the prostate gland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
prostate cancer; prostatic adenocarcinoma
Hypernyms ("prostatic adenocarcinoma" is a kind of...):
adenocarcinoma; glandular cancer; glandular carcinoma (malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium)
Context examples
Due to promoter hypermethylation, the GSTP1 gene is not expressed in prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia or prostatic adenocarcinomas.
(GSTP1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
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