invasive
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The WHI safety board reported that HRT not only increased the risk of cardiovascular disease, blood clots and gallbladder disease, it also raised the risk of invasive breast cancer by 26%.
From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026
The travel advisory issued last week says visitors may be arbitrarily denied entry to the country, detained in “inhumane” conditions or subjected to invasive phone and social media searches.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
It would be unethical to experimentally introduce invasive species to randomly selected islands or to randomly spark wildfires to test their impact.
From Slate • Apr. 28, 2026
Grant said the project would also help the team monitor the presence of invasive species and feed back to relevant government bodies.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026
In this particular study—the largest ever done on the relationship between the two cervical cancers—Jones and TeLinde found that 62 percent of women with invasive cancer who’d had earlier biopsies first had carcinoma in situ.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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