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Disease

colorectal adenocarcinoma

MONDO:0005008Mondo

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Findings

No curated finding names colorectal adenocarcinoma yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.

Definition

The most common type of colorectal carcinoma. It is characterized by the presence of malignant glandular epithelial cells invading through the muscularis mucosa into the submucosa. Histologic variants include mucinous adenocarcinoma, signet ring cell carcinoma, medullary carcinoma, serrated adenocarcinoma, cribriform comedo-type adenocarcinoma, and micropapillary adenocarcinoma.

Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0005008), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.

Where it sits

A kind of: adenocarcinoma
colorectal carcinoma
Narrower terms (5): colon adenocarcinoma
colorectal medullary carcinoma
colorectal serrated adenocarcinoma
colorectal signet ring cell carcinoma
rectum adenocarcinoma

Other names

7 names

Resolves to: colorectal adenocarcinoma

Also called: adenocarcinoma of large boweladenocarcinoma of large intestineadenocarcinoma of the large boweladenocarcinoma of the large intestinecolorectal (colon or rectal) adenocarcinomacolorectum adenocarcinomalarge bowel adenocarcinoma