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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 glandplay

  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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