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castrate-resistant prostate cancer

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-001490

Prostate cancer that keeps growing even when the amount of testosterone in the body is reduced to very low levels. Many early-stage prostate cancers need normal levels of testosterone to grow, but castrate-resistant prostate cancers do not. Also called CRPC.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-001490
FieldOncology and biomedicine
SynonymsCRPC
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-001490",
  "term": "castrate-resistant prostate cancer",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "Prostate cancer that keeps growing even when the amount of testosterone in the body is reduced to very low levels. Many early-stage prostate cancers need normal levels of testosterone to grow, but castrate-resistant prostate cancers do not. Also called CRPC.",
  "synonyms": [
    "CRPC"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/castrate-resistant-prostate-cancer/"
}

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