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Disease

descending colon cancer

MONDO:0001462Mondo

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Findings

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

Definition

A malignant neoplasm involving the descending colon.

Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0001462), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.

Where it sits

A kind of: malignant colon neoplasm
Narrower terms (1): splenic flexure cancer

Other names

4 names

Resolves to: descending colon cancer

Also called: cancer of descending colonmalignant descending colon neoplasmmalignant neoplasm of descending colonmalignant tumour of descending colon