indolent lesion of epithelial origin

Meaning

Noun

• a type of cancerous growth, which is malignant, but spreads slowly, and unlikely to be a serious issue within the lifetime of the victim

Related

Similar words

• IDLE

Broader meaning words

• [[tumour/tumor]]
• malignancy
• cancer

Origin

• indolent + lesion + epithelial.
• Coined in 2015 by the research team of Laura J. Esserman, Ian M. Thompson, Brian Reid, Peter Nelson, David F. Ransohoff, H. Gilbert Welch, Shelley Hwang, Donald A. Berry, Kenneth W. Kinzler, William C. Black, Mina Bissell, Howard Parnes, Sudhir Srivastava.