How to Use cancer in a Sentence
cancer
noun
- She learned that she has cancer.
- Eating certain foods may help reduce the risk of cancer.
- Advanced cancers are more difficult to treat.
- He was diagnosed with cancer.
- I'm a Taurus, but my best friend is a Cancer.
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That year, his wife Janice had died suddenly of brain cancer.
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Stephen Borelli,
USA TODAY,
13 Feb. 2023
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Scientists have known for decades that high doses of vinyl chloride can cause liver cancer.
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Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
16 Feb. 2023
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That's how other, stronger forms of radiation can cause cancer.
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Kevin Cortez,
Popular Mechanics,
17 Feb. 2023
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Of course, not everyone who has irregular periods or no periods at all will get this or any other type of cancer.
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Corey Whelan,
Verywell Health,
4 Nov. 2024
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His position has been vacant for over a year since Abloh, who was suffering from cancer, died in November 2021.
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Ananya Bhattacharya,
Quartz,
15 Feb. 2023
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Heather Berkey drove 7½ hours from outside Philadelphia to honor her Viszla, Lexi, who had died a few weeks before from cancer.
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Martha Teichner,
CBS News,
12 Feb. 2023
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The good news: this type of cancer has a high cure rate.
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David Gilbert,
The New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2024
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Both also agree that cancer is more of a marathon than a race.
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Erin Prater,
Fortune Well,
4 Feb. 2024
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Dawn grows her hair out, then chops it off to donate it to cancer patients.
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David Sedaris,
The New Yorker,
22 Jan. 2024
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The cause was breast cancer, her daughter Juliette Rossant said.
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Alex Williams,
New York Times,
13 Oct. 2023
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The conductor has been battling a dire form of brain cancer since 2021.
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Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Sep. 2024
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It’s been about a month since Olivia Munn shared her breast cancer diagnosis with the world.
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Jenna Ryu,
SELF,
17 Apr. 2024
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Beauty and the beast:Two high school athletes who battled same bone cancer go to prom.
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USA TODAY,
17 May 2023
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His wife died of ovarian cancer last year, and his son is in his thirties.
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Rivka Galchen,
The New Yorker,
17 July 2023
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Well that aims to fund holistic care for cancer patients.
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Glamour,
2 Oct. 2024
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Some of the increase in heart disease and cancer deaths may be an effect of the pandemic.
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Joel Achenbach,
Anchorage Daily News,
4 May 2023
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Catherine, Princess of Wales—Kate to those (many millions of people) who love her—has cancer.
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Chloe Fox,
Vogue,
23 Mar. 2024
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My husband had surgery the first time he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
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Dr. Keith Roach,
oregonlive,
13 Apr. 2023
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This difference led to more deaths from heart disease and lung cancer for men.
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Will Sullivan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Nov. 2023
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The hormone therapy used in the trial raised the risk of breast cancer and failed to reduce heart disease.
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Maggie Fox,
TIME,
5 Apr. 2024
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Shauna had cancer as a child, which stunted the growth of her pituitary gland.
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Bailey Richards,
Peoplemag,
17 July 2023
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The cancer advanced rapidly, and Nicholas passed away that August.
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Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
11 July 2024
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These siblings are all from my mom’s first husband, who died of cancer before I was born.
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Amy Dickinson,
Detroit Free Press,
12 Jan. 2024
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Eating these foods could increase the risk of colorectal cancer, a study has found.
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Fox News Staff,
Fox News,
29 Nov. 2023
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Drinking green tea regularly has been linked with lower rates of cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Carrie Madormo, Rn, Mph,
Verywell Health,
25 Oct. 2024
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