carcinoma

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Mammary carcinoma, an aggressive and common cancer in cats, provided some of the clearest insights.

From Science Daily • Mar. 18, 2026

In May 2025, Arnold announced that he was ill, and had received a diagnosis of stage 4 clear cell renal carcinoma, a type of kidney cancer, which had metastasised into his lung.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2026

That led to a biopsy, which in April revealed that Hamilton had Stage 2 triple-positive invasive lobular carcinoma.

From Slate • Feb. 4, 2026

She was 62 years old and had been under treatment for Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare skin cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Diagnosing carcinoma in situ had only been possible since 1941, when George Papanicolaou, a Greek researcher, published a paper describing a test he’d developed, now called the Pap smear.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot