Definitions for "Gleason Score"
A grading which indicates the rate of growth of the prostate cancer.
A widely used method for classifying 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; high numbers indicate poor differentiation and therefore cancer
The most common grading scale used for the comparison of cancers of the prostate. This scale assigns a point value to describe and rate the malignant cells.