Gleason score

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English

Etymology

Named after Donald Gleason, a pathologist at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Hospital who developed it with colleagues in the 1960s.

Noun

Gleason score (plural Gleason scores)

  1. A score achieved in the Gleason Grading system, used in evaluating the prognosis of men with prostate cancer.
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