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. [ NCIT:C36310 ]
Synonyms: secondary carcinoma
Term information
- MEDGEN:88450 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- UMLS:C0085668 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- NCIT:C36310 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
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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.
http://identifiers.org/medgen/88450
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C36310
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0085668