astroglioma

astroglioma

English

Etymology

astro- +‎ glioma

Noun

astroglioma (plural astrogliomas)

1. A low-grade form of cystic astrocytoma
   • 2015 July 25, Yogesh Kumar et al., “Massive interstitial copy-neutral loss-of-heterozygosity as evidence for cancer being a disease of the DNA-damage response”, in BMC Medical Genomics‎, volume 8, DOI:10.1186/s12920-015-0104-2:

     Of the thirty patients, five were diagnosed for adenocarcinoma of the stomach; five for glioma including three with glioblastoma and two with astroglioma; five for acute myeloid leukemia; five for primary hepatocellular carcinoma; five for lung cancer including two with pulmonary squamous-cell carcinoma, two with pulmonary adenocarcinoma and one with pulmonary neuroendocrinal carcinoma; and five for lung-to-brain metastatic adenocarcinoma.