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Recent Examples of polyp
Chronic rhinosinusitis and asthma often occur together, especially in people with nasal polyps.
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Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Mar. 2025
However, polyps’ internal growth programming isn’t everything.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025
The giant inflatable colon helps illustrate health issues that can impact the critical organ, including colon cancer, Crohn’s disease, diverticulitis, colitis, internal hemorrhoids and polyps and how colonoscopy screenings can help detect them.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
The survey found that 57 percent are unaware that these screenings can prevent colorectal cancer by removing precancerous polyps.
—Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
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Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Mar. 2025
However, polyps’ internal growth programming isn’t everything.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025
The giant inflatable colon helps illustrate health issues that can impact the critical organ, including colon cancer, Crohn’s disease, diverticulitis, colitis, internal hemorrhoids and polyps and how colonoscopy screenings can help detect them.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 16 Feb. 2025
The survey found that 57 percent are unaware that these screenings can prevent colorectal cancer by removing precancerous polyps.
—Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyp
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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
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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
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Liquid biopsies must detect cancer early, differentiate between malignancies and avoid the pitfalls of false positives and negatives.—
Mariya Filipova,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Just as with labels on cigarettes, America's top doctor is calling for cancer risk warnings on alcohol after a report cites studies linking alcoholic beverages to more than a half-dozen malignancies, including breast cancer.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
3 Jan. 2025
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Ryan also credited Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Teddi Mellencamp for talking about her own melanoma.—
Caroline Frost,
Deadline,
22 Mar. 2025
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Vitale, a Hall of Fame broadcaster and college hoops icon, spent the past three years battling melanoma, lymphoma and vocal cord and lymph node cancers.—
Justin Williams,
The Athletic,
16 Mar. 2025
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Mere weeks later, her oldest son, Santiago, was diagnosed with Burkitt lymphoma, a rare form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.—
Madeleine Marr,
Miami Herald,
17 Mar. 2025
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However, common symptoms of dying from lymphoma include extreme fatigue, breathing changes, and loss of appetite.—
Gagandeep Brar,
Verywell Health,
28 Feb. 2025
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Black women are 40% more likely to die from breast cancer when compared to White women.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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Interventions to reduce cancer risk In addition to helping firefighters understand and predict their cancer risk, the Wildfire Conservancy is studying interventions that can be put in place now.—
John Bonifield,
CNN,
23 Mar. 2025
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More news: Jade Cargill Involved In Backstage Confrontation With WWE Star: Report Homicide announced his retirement through a heartfelt Facebook post, disclosing the discovery of a brain cyst by his doctors.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 2025
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But Perri Owens had a condition called polycystic ovary syndrom (PCOS) — large ovaries with small cysts on the edges — that made conceiving challenging.—
Brad Schmitt,
The Tennessean,
23 Dec. 2024
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“Polyp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyp. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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