bilateral cancer

A cancer that occurs in both paired organs—e.g., both breasts, kidneys, ovaries—either synchronously or metachronously.

bilateral cancer

Oncology A cancer that occurs in both paired organs–eg, both breasts, kidneys, ovaries, etc

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Candidates for hemiablative therapy are those patients with unifocal lesions and unilateral disease or patients with bilateral cancer and insignificant disease contralaterally.

Parameters predicting postoperative unilateral disease in patients with unilateral prostate cancer in diagnostic biopsy: a rationale for selecting hemiablative focal therapy candidates

2] While some workers consider contralateral breast cancer diagnosed within one year as synchronous others term only those bilateral cancers diagnosed with in three months of each other as synchronous variant.

Synchronous bilateral breast carcinoma

Bilateral cancers had lower rates of IHC usage than unilateral cancers in both groups.

Patterns in immunohistochemical usage in extended core prostate biopsies: comparisons among genitourinary pathologists and nongenitourinary pathologists

Bilateral cancers are synchronous when diagnosed at the same time or within 6 months of each other, and metachronous when they occur bilaterally at different times, i.

Unusual mammography findings in patients with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast