Gleason Score
Abbreviations: GS
Definition: A system of grading prostate cancer cells to determine the best treatment and to predict how well a person is likely to do. A low Gleason score means the cancer cells are very similar to normal prostate cells; a high Gleason score means the cancer cells are very different from normal. (CNet) Named after the physician who developed a method of grading prostate cancer, it classifies the cellular differentiation of cancerous tissues. The less the cancerous cells appear like normal cells, the more malignant the cancer; two numbers, each from 1-5, are assigned successively to the two most predominant patterns of differentiation present in the examined tissue sample and are added together to produce the Gleason Score.
For more information: See differentiation. Also see Gleason's drawing of the five types of cells at Phoenix5.
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