adenocarcinoma
MONDO:0004970Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names adenocarcinoma yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A common cancer characterized by the presence of malignant glandular cells. Morphologically, adenocarcinomas are classified according to the growth pattern (e.g., papillary, alveolar) or according to the secreting product (e.g., mucinous, serous). Representative examples of adenocarcinoma are ductal and lobular breast carcinoma, lung adenocarcinoma, renal cell carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma (hepatoma), colon adenocarcinoma, and prostate adenocarcinoma.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0004970), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (64)
- acinar cell carcinoma
- adenocarcinoma in situ
- adenoid cystic carcinoma
- bile duct adenocarcinoma
- bladder adenocarcinoma
- breast adenocarcinoma
- cervical adenocarcinoma
- clear cell adenocarcinoma
- colorectal adenocarcinoma
- cystadenocarcinoma
- diffuse type adenocarcinoma
- endometrioid adenocarcinoma
- endometrium adenocarcinoma
- epididymal adenocarcinoma
- esophageal adenocarcinoma
- ethmoid sinus adenocarcinoma
- fallopian tube adenocarcinoma
- follicular variant thyroid gland papillary carcinoma
- gallbladder adenocarcinoma
- gastric adenocarcinoma
- gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma
- granular cell carcinoma
- hepatocellular carcinoma
- hepatoid adenocarcinoma
- intestinal type adenocarcinoma
- lacrimal gland adenocarcinoma
Other names
4 names
Resolves to: adenocarcinoma
- Also called
- adenocarcinoma NOS (morphologic abnormality)adenocarcinoma, malignantadenocarcinoma, no subtype (morphologic abnormality)adenocarcinomas