prostate cancer

1. 1.

   cancer of the prostate gland

   Synonymsprostatic adenocarcinoma

   Broaderadenocarcinoma

Questions about prostate cancer

What does prostate cancer mean?

prostate cancer means "cancer of the prostate gland".

What is another word for prostate cancer?

Close synonyms include prostatic adenocarcinoma. 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 prostate cancer a common word?

prostate 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.