cancer
IPA: kˈænsɝ
noun
- (medicine, oncology, pathology) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
- (figuratively) Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.
- (astronomy) A constellation of the zodiac supposedly shaped like a crab.
- (astrology) The zodiac sign for the crab, ruled by the Moon and covering June 22 - July 22 (tropical astrology) or July 16 - August 15 (sidereal astrology).
- Someone with a Cancer star sign.
adjective
- (slang) Extremely unpleasant and annoying.
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Examples of "cancer" in Sentences
- The treatment depends on the staging of the cancer.
- The chronic phase encompasses the treatment for cancer.
- The cancer is in remission and he is continuing treatment.
- Cancer that occurs in this way is called incipient cancer.
- The cancer is in remission and he is continuing treatments.
- The cuddly breast cancer movement is hated by many with the disease.
- The cancer is incurable and he has decided to forego further treatment.
- Given the cancer treatments available at the time, the prognosis was grim.
- The presentation of disease at the beginning of the cancer can be different.
- The contribution of this trust in the field of Cancer Treatment is commendable.
- In many languages, although the word cancer is well known, people avoid using it in ordinary speech.
- My husband's father died of lung cancer at the beginning of the year and we have another member of the family who is living with cancer.
- The authors trained six dogs of different breeds for 7 months to discriminate between urine from patients with bladder cancer and urine from those without cancer
- For example, enter intitle:~cancer and Web sites with pain, one of the synonyms for cancer along with disease and oncology, in the title will show up on the results list.
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- Thus, the amount of increase is proportional both to the thing increased, and the time during which it increases; in other words, usury grows like a cancer -- _foenus serpit sicut cancer_.
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- Since then, laboratory studies have shown that cannabinoids have effects against tumor cells from glioblastoma (a deadly type of brain cancer) as well as those from thyroid cancer¸ leukemia/lymphoma, and skin, uterus, breast, stomach, colorectal, pancreatic and prostate cancers.
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