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What is an adenocarcinoma?

What is an adenocarcinoma? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (oncology) Any of several forms of carcinoma that originate in glandular tissue
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After the distal pancreatectomy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma, the patient received radiation and radiosensitizing chemotherapy treatments.
Grossly, the spleen was mostly decapsulated, and microscopic examination showed a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.
Although squamous cell carcinoma is the most common paranasal tumour, adenocarcinoma is the most common ethmoidal sinus tumour.
The number of patients with neoplastic lesions, adenomas, adenomas 1 cm or more in diameter and adenocarcinoma was similar in both groups.
Lung adenocarcinoma, a non-small-cell lung cancer, tends to resist the effects of chemotherapy.
It is currently believed that most colorectal carcinomas start as benign adenomas that undergo malignant transformation into adenocarcinoma.

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