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cancer

noun as in malignant growth

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LeBlanc considered herself lucky because no one in her family has had cancer.

Then you get down into patients who have established cardiac disease, who’ve got moderate to severe asthma, who have or have had cancer in the past, sickle-cell disease and things like that.

A redesigned set for the coronavirus era will allow for the contestants to be further apart and at a greater distance from Trebek, who has continued as host after a diagnosis last year of pancreatic cancer.

From Fortune

As Boseman’s untimely death reminds us, colorectal cancer is a difficult and emotional disease for all people at any age.

Physicians also prescribe birth control to patients who would face health risks if they were to become pregnant, including women who suffer from cardiac disease or are undergoing some cancer treatments.

From Fortune

After four or five months of casual interaction, they realized they both had lost a young parent to cancer.

A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

Family members say he developed also liver cancer after his capture.

My father has suffered two strokes and endured brain cancer since I was arrested and imprisoned.

Dean Sybil Todd passed away from pancreatic cancer before she could testify.

(b) Diseases of the stomach associated with deficient hydrochloric acid, as chronic gastritis and gastric cancer.

To-day men of science are trying to conquer the horrors of cancer and smallpox, and rabies and consumption.

Since he died from cancer in the stomach, he could retain very little food.

The presence of lactic acid is the most suggestive single symptom of gastric cancer.

Considerable numbers of pus-corpuscles have been found in some cases of gastric cancer.

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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cancer, such as: corruption, disease, malignancy, sickness, tumor, and c.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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