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Etymology
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See masto- and onco-.
Noun
mastoncus (uncountable)
- (dated, pathology) breast cancer
2008 November 6, Lan lan Yin et al., “A suppressor of multiple extracellular matrix-degrading proteases and cancer metastasis”, in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, volume 13, →DOI:Characterization of NYD-SP8 (A) RT-PCR analysis of NYD-SP8 mRNA expression levels in malignant lymphoma (1); adenocarcinoma of kidney (2); colon cancer (3); mastoncus (4); lung cancer (5); oesophageal cancer (6); gastric carcinoma (7); negative control (8). β-actin was used as internal control.