recurrence

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That sense of closure is invaluable for people who have spent years worrying about the possibility of a recurrence.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

These vaccines may ward off cancer in patients who have been treated for the disease, but are at high risk for recurrence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

A study published last year in the journal Nature, for example, found that a personalized vaccine showed promise in forestalling recurrence of clear cell renal cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of kidney cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

The Ireland centre had been passed fit to play in the second Test against the Wallabies but withdrew himself from the match after feeling the recurrence of concussion symptoms from an incident two weeks before.

From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026

The idea of discovery simply could not take hold in a culture so preoccupied with Biblical chronology and liturgical repetition on the one hand, and secular ideas of rebirth, recurrence and reinterpretation on the other.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton