English Explanatory Dictionary

Gleason score

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Gleason score Gleason scores

Etymology

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

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