glandular cancer

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   malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium

   Synonymsadenocarcinomaglandular carcinoma

   Broadercarcinoma

   Narrowerprostate cancer

Questions about glandular cancer

What does glandular cancer mean?

glandular cancer means "malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium".

What is another word for glandular cancer?

Close synonyms include adenocarcinoma, glandular carcinoma. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glandular cancer a common word?

glandular cancer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.