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glandular cancer

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Noun1.glandular cancer - malignant tumor originating in glandular epitheliumglandular cancer - malignant tumor originating in glandular epithelium
carcinoma - any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer
prostate cancer, prostatic adenocarcinoma - cancer of the prostate gland


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The gene causes an insidious form of glandular cancer usually in the head and neck and in women also in the breast.
Approximately 95 percent of malignant pancreatic tumors arise in the glandular ducts of the organ which normally convey enzymes needed for digestion to the small bowel; such glandular cancers are known as adenocarcinomas and represent what is generally known as "pancreatic cancer".
Bennis, a health and physical education teacher at Thousand Oaks High School, said she started making the scarves on Mother's Day 1999, as a tribute to her mother, Zelda Bennis, who died 10 years earlier of a glandular cancer that spread to her brain.
 
 
 
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