page_title: Histopathologic diagnosis of prostate cancer
section_title: Subdiagnoses - overview
hierarchical_section_title: Histopathologic diagnosis of prostate cancer / Subdiagnoses - overview
caption_attribution_description: English: Prostate cancer types, reflecting table in the article Histopathologic diagnosis of prostate cancer.
context_page_description: A histopathologic diagnosis of prostate cancer is the discernment of whether there is a cancer in the prostate, as well as specifying any subdiagnosis of prostate cancer if possible. The histopathologic subdiagnosis of prostate cancer has implications for the possibility and methodology of any subsequent Gleason scoring. The most common histopathological subdiagnosis of prostate cancer is acinar adenocarcinoma, constituting 93% of prostate cancers. The most common form of acinar adenocarcinoma, in turn, is "adenocarcinoma, not otherwise specified", also termed conventional, or usual acinar adenocarcinoma.
context_section_description: Prostate cancer tumor markers may be necessary in cases that remain uncertain after microscopy.
caption: Pie chart of subdiagnoses.[notes 1]
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