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| Domain | Definition |
Health | A system of grading prostate cancer cells to determine the best treatment and to predict how well a person is likely to do. A low Gleason score means the cancer cells are very similar to normal prostate cells; a high Gleason score means the cancer cells are very different from normal. (references) |
Medicine | Numerical value ranging from 1 to 5 used to indicate the degree of differentiation of the prostate cancer cells. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Histological slide (H & E stain at x300) showing prostate cancer. On the right is a somewhat normal Gleason Value of 3 (out of 5) with moderately differentiated cancer. On the left is less normal tissue with a Gleason Value of 4 (out of 5) that is highly undifferentiated. The Gleason score is the sum of the two worst areas of the histological slide. Credit: Otis Brawley. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gleason score | 43 |
prostate cancer gleason score | 8 |
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| Language | Translations for "GLEASON SCORE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | score de Gleason. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | Gleason-Wert. (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | valore Gleason. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | easonglay orescay puntuación de Gleason. (various references) | ||||||||||
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