lymphoma
noun
Examples of lymphoma in a Sentence
Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Jurors had awarded the three plaintiffs a total of $61.1 million in actual damages and $500 million each in punitive damages in November over claims that years of using Roundup on their lawns and gardens caused non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
—Jef Feely, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
Liver, thyroid, cervix uteri, bladder and non-Hodgkin lymphoma make up the rest of the top 10 leading cancer types amongst both sexes.
—Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
The most common cancer types are lung, breast in women, colorectal, prostate, stomach, liver, thyroid, cervical, bladder and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to the report.
—Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 4 Apr. 2024
Mark was diagnosed with an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
—Nathan Luna, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2024
The cancer was known as Burkitt lymphoma, and because the tumors occurred in certain equatorial locations, Epstein strongly suspected a viral cause.
—Delthia Ricks, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
Candy Darling died of lymphoma in that hospital room in 1974.
—Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2024
There was an elevated trend for oral cancers, thyroid cancer, acute myelogenous leukemia, disorders of the blood, B-cell lymphomas and a certain kind of bladder cancer called nonpapillary transitional cell bladder carcinoma.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
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New Latin
1873, in the meaning defined above
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“Lymphoma.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lymphoma. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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