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cancer

[kan-ser] / ˈkæn sər /


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Stewart, from Londonderry, won four caps for Ireland between 1999 and 2000 and was a founding member of Ulster Women's Rugby but, in 2003, she died after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Dad Daniel said he thought the message would resonate with the princess, after she completed her own Three Peaks challenge earlier this year, in aid of the hospital where she was treated for cancer.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Kaiser’s expert argued that the physician assistant did an appropriate exam and that his low suspicion of breast cancer was reasonable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

In addition to the investment, the two companies also plan to ramp up their collaboration on developing cancer treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

From cancer patients struggling to pay health-care premiums and from people who’d lost their homes to foreclosure.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The team thinks that the gases blanketing 55 Cancri e would be bubbling out from the interior, rather than being present ever since the planet formed.

From Science Daily ● May 8, 2024

The scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope are currently observing exoplanet 55 Cancri e, and are hoping to do with it what they did to WASP-96b.

From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2022

The star, however, is smaller and cooler than that of 55 Cancri e.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 3, 2022

He has a favorite planet — 55 Cancri e — that also is known as the “diamond planet.”

From Washington Post ● May 29, 2019

I observed to-night an occultation of a2 Cancri, at the dark limb of the moon, which gives for the longitude of the place 116° 23' 28"; the latitude, by observation, is 35° 13' 08".

From The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources by John Charles Frémont




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