How to Use glioblastoma in a Sentence

glioblastoma

noun
  • The cause of death was glioblastoma, a fast-growing brain tumor.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021
  • He was diagnosed with a grade 4 glioblastoma—here's what that means.
    Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • Cox died Thursday from glioblastoma, a cancer of the brain.
    Helen Branswell, STAT, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The cancers include glioblastomas, which grow rapidly and are very hard to treat.
    Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2017
  • Each year more and more people are diagnosed with glioblastomas.
    Brad Quick, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • From 3 to 6 percent of glioblastoma patients are cured; one of them will bear my name.
    New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Only 5% of people with glioblastoma survive for five years or more.
    David Begnaud, Analisa Novak, CBS News, 21 July 2023
  • A little over fifteen years ago, my second husband passed away from glioblastoma.
    Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
  • The cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor, said her husband, James Biber.
    Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The cause was glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, said her friend Diane Dodge.
    Washington Post, 31 May 2021
  • The technique could give Miller and thousands of others with glioblastomas far longer lives.
    Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Within days, Guild had had brain surgery and was diagnosed with glioblastoma.
    David W. Brown, New Yorker, 12 June 2025
  • Corey has glioblastoma, an incurable brain tumor, and is on home hospice.
    Steve Hartman, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Biden’s son, Beau, died of a brain cancer called glioblastoma in 2015.
    Angus Chen and Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The breakthroughs that seem to be taking place in regards to glioblastoma is so remarkable.
    Fox News, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Her family said the cause was a glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain tumor.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Potthast died of glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.
    Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 24 Nov. 2025
  • To test this discovery, the team treated human glioblastoma cells with hydralazine in the lab.
    Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The virus spreads to a glioblastoma cell, kills it, and then makes a copy of itself that spreads again to another glioblastoma cell.
    Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
  • There she was diagnosed with a very large, very aggressive, stage 4 glioblastoma.
    Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Jones had been absent from the show all year while her husband Uche Ojeh battled glioblastoma.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Moats’ health was declining, after three surgeries to try and thwart the glioblastoma that had attacked his brain.
    Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Hazen lost his wife, Nicole, to a battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Becca Valle Most glioblastomas cannot be fully removed with surgery.
    CBS News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • For more than a year, Matt has been battling an uncurable brain cancer, glioblastoma.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2026
  • The cause was glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain cancer, his brother, Roy, said.
    Alex Williams, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • He was diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer for which there is no cure.
    Cara Lynn Shultz, PEOPLE, 31 Mar. 2026
  • But nobody's ever done the study to see if the brain is affected, because glioblastoma is such a rare disease.
    Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
  • His older brother Brad passed away from glioblastoma in 2023.
    Jon Greenberg, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Her husband, the architect James Biber, said the cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023

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