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Malignant Uterine Neoplasm
Definition 1
Primary or metastatic malignant neoplasm involving the uterine corpus and/or the cervix. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
Cancer that forms in tissues of the uterus (the small, hollow, pear-shaped organ in a woman's pelvis in which a fetus develops). Two types of uterine cancer are endometrial cancer (cancer that begins in cells lining the uterus) and uterine sarcoma (a rare cancer that begins in muscle or other tissues in the uterus). (NCI Dictionary)
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