The phrase "disease pathways" refers to the different steps or processes that a disease takes in the body. It could mean how a disease starts, spreads, and affects different parts of the body. Full definition
You are mistakenly discussing tooth decay and periodontal disease as if they are the same pathology with the same disease pathway, etc.. (wellnessmama.com)
During his undergraduate training at the University of California, Los Angeles, he was drawn to clinical research, leading to a Ph.D. at Boston University where he combined clinical research and computers to establish new algorithms and approaches for studying disease pathways by compiling gene expression profiles using Expressed Sequence Tags. (sciencemag.org)
Show how analysis of CSF samples from Alzheimer's disease patients has identified potential new biomarkers and provided new information about some of the major pathways involved in the disease (sciencemag.org)