Gleason score

noun

Etymology

Named after Donald Gleason, a pathologist at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Hospital who developed it with colleagues in the 1960s.

Definitions

  1. A score achieved in the Gleason grading system, used in evaluating the prognosis of men…

    A score achieved in the Gleason grading system, used in evaluating the prognosis of men with prostate cancer.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for Gleason score. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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