cancer

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Recent Examples of cancer Carter Goodrich, who completed cancer treatment in June 2021, began writing her first novel that November. Amy Bizzarri, Chicago Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025 The report linked plant oils with lower total cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality—a distinct departure from the fearmongering happening online. Lisa Niven-Phillips, Vogue, 4 Apr. 2025 What Happened To Molly Kochan? Molly Kochan passed away on March 8, 2019, after more than three years of living with Stage IV cancer. Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 4 Apr. 2025 An autopsy later revealed that Kerry didn’t have cancer, as she was led to believe, or any other prior health problems. Escher Walcott, People.com, 23 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cancer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancer
Noun
  • Millions of Americans depend on our nation's research institutions for treatments and cures to the diseases that devastate families every day.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Modern hybrids feature the best of both worlds, with better pest and disease resistance, high production and really good flavor.
    Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The 65-year-old was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma last year.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • Over the last five months, Coulier has been battling stage 3 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
    Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Other mouthwashes for cankers are single-ingredient antimicrobial rinses.
    Matt Fuchs, TIME, 26 Feb. 2025
  • The canker fungus lives on in the inner bark of fledgling trees and encircles the stem.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The virus has also infected 756 dairy herds; more than 75% of the state’s total dairy herds.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The virus was everywhere — first officially reported in Florida in early March, but suspected to be on the loose before that.
    Orlando Sentinel and Virginian Pilot Editorial Boards, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Like Monaghan, who was diagnosed with melanoma in 2007, White is also an advocate for skin health.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • In a landmark trial published in 2021, oncologists at several cancer centers across the U.S. and in Israel gave fecal transplants to 10 patients with metastatic melanoma to try and improve their responses to PD-1 inhibitors.
    David Cox, NBC News, 14 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Since then, the levels have been adjusted to a maximum of 0.7 ppm or 0.7 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water, which is considered optimal for preventing tooth decay.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Weak or absent pulse Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia Some people with severe arterial blockages develop chronic limb-threatening ischemia (insufficient blood flow), which can cause severe, constant pain, gangrene (tissue decay), and even limb loss (amputation).
    Alicen Nelson MD, Verywell Health, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Autopsies can catch hereditary illnesses that doctors tend to miss, such as signet-ring-cell carcinomas, and reveal causes of dementia that may have been misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s.
    Samuel Ashworth, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2025
  • In some cases, metformin users saw a significantly lower risk of squamous cell carcinoma, but that reduction was not significant in African American patients.
    Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Germans are turning their backs on Tesla in record numbers, and arguably the only possible way for the rot to stop, or at least slow down, is for Musk to distance himself from Tesla and hand over the CEO position to someone else.
    Peter Lyon, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
  • This outrageously misguided spending reveals a deep rot within our foreign aid system.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025

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“Cancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancer. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.

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