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Icon Sportswire via Getty Images In late July, football legend and University of Colorado head football coach Deion Sanders revealed that during the offseason, he had been diagnosed with bladder cancer and had also been successfully treated for his condition.
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Andy Frye, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Barrett has been open about her cancer battle over the past few years.
—Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Your Risk of Some Cancers May Decrease Some studies show that green tea catechins may help stop the growth of cancer cells in the breast, prostate, lungs, and stomach.
—Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 28 Aug. 2025
His cause of death was skin cancer.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2025
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Andy Frye, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Barrett has been open about her cancer battle over the past few years.
—Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025
Your Risk of Some Cancers May Decrease Some studies show that green tea catechins may help stop the growth of cancer cells in the breast, prostate, lungs, and stomach.
—Sarah Jividen, Verywell Health, 28 Aug. 2025
His cause of death was skin cancer.
—IEEE Spectrum, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancer
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This isn’t the first study to suggest the importance of breakfast for living a long life—research has shown that regularly eating a morning meal is linked with lower overall and heart-related mortality (and that bypassing it can up your heart-disease risk).—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
4 Sep. 2025
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Yet America’s system is transactional, rewarding affluence while neglecting the very conditions that produce disease.—
Stan Chu Ilo,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Sep. 2025
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Bergen and Louis Malle were married from 1980 until his death from lymphoma in 1995, USA TODAY previously reported.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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According to the Los Angeles Times, Louis died at 63 years old in 1995 from complications related to lymphoma.—
Jessica Booth,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The plane trees that line the historic canal, once captured in the glow of childhood and sunlight, are now dying—devastated by an invasive fungal disease known as canker stain.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Symptoms include brown-ringed leaf spots, dark stem cankers or zones of dead/dying tissue, and eventually, the collapse of plants in entire sections of a mass grouping.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
1 May 2025
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Bonacini wants gold — a sterilizing cure that eradicates every trace of the virus and cannot return.—
Jia H. Jung,
Mercury News,
1 Sep. 2025
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The virus was gone within a day and the ulcers within a month.—
DAILY BRIEFING,
AZCentral.com,
31 Aug. 2025
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When tested on human T cells, which had been developed to recognize a range of tumor antigens, zeaxanthin bolstered the immune cells' power in killing off melanoma, multiple myeloma and glioblastoma cells.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 44, has stage 4 melanoma that has metastasized to her brain and lungs.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Exposure to warm, humid air and bugs in the outdoors will speed up the decay even more.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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The quest has led us down many theoretically interesting avenues, spawning ideas like extra dimensions, supersymmetry, proton decay, string theory, and many others.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
5 Sep. 2025
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Applying the sunscreen and avoiding the sun can help protect against basal cell carcinoma, according to Mayo Clinic.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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In the second image, Ramsay put his stitches on display after doctors removed a basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Some cursory research warned me of the dangers of blossom end rot and regular rot—two common conundrums when cultivating vining plants that grow on the ground.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
23 Aug. 2025
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The science-fiction novelist Bruce Sterling recently encountered Italian-brain-rot figurines for sale on the island of Mallorca in blind boxes just like Labubus.—
Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Cancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancer. Accessed 8 Sep. 2025.
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