indolent lesion of epithelial origin
English
Etymology
indolent + lesion + epithelial.Coined in 2015 by the research team of Laura J. Esserman, Ian M. Thompson, Brian Reid, Peter Nelson, David F. Ransohoff, H. Gilbert Welch, Shelley Hwang, Donald A. Berry, Kenneth W. Kinzler, William C. Black, Mina Bissell, Howard Parnes, Sudhir Srivastava.[1]
Noun
indolent lesion of epithelial origin (plural indolent lesions of epithelial origin)
- (pathology) a type of cancerous growth, which is malignant, but spreads slowly, and unlikely to be a serious issue within the lifetime of the victim
Synonyms
- IDLE (abbreviation)
Hypernyms
- tumour/tumor
- malignancy
- cancer
References
- Lancet Oncology, "Addressing overdiagnosis and overtreatment in cancer: a prescription for change", May 2015 ; DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(13)70598-9 ; PMID: 24807866 ; PMCID: PMC4322920 ; NIHMSID: NIHMS658721 ;