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secondary carcinoma

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A carcinoma that arises from a pre-existing lower grade epithelial lesion, or as a result of a primary carcinoma that has spread to secondary sites, or due to a complication of a cancer treatment. [ ]

Term info

Label

secondary carcinoma

Synonyms
  • secondary carcinoma
database cross reference
comment

Note that we currently treat secondary neoplasms as being neoplastic diseases that are derived from neoplasm; classes such as 'neoplasm', 'carcinoma' are implicitly primary. This may change in future.

exactMatch

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C36310, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0085668

excluded subClassOf

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MONDO_0004993

id

MONDO:0024878