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Recent Examples of cancer
The conversation between them marks an emotional turning point — though Iceman delivers just a single line of dialogue due to an illness that eventually takes his life (Kilmer himself had trouble speaking after his battle with throat cancer).
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 May 2025
Scientists have been able to harness some of these proteins’ death-inducing properties to treat certain blood cancers.
—Paul McClure 11, New Atlas, 11 May 2025
The proposal would likely only impact certain drugs covered by Medicare and given in an office — think infusions that treat cancer, and other injectables.
—CBS News, 11 May 2025
In most cases, strains of HPV cause cervical cancer.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 10 May 2025
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Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 May 2025
Scientists have been able to harness some of these proteins’ death-inducing properties to treat certain blood cancers.
—Paul McClure 11, New Atlas, 11 May 2025
The proposal would likely only impact certain drugs covered by Medicare and given in an office — think infusions that treat cancer, and other injectables.
—CBS News, 11 May 2025
In most cases, strains of HPV cause cervical cancer.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancer
Noun
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Besides being nuisances, many types carry diseases including West Nile virus, encephalitis, and canine heartworm.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
11 May 2025
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Minnesota newborns will soon be screened for a disease that can lead to delays in developmental milestones, regression of skills, seizures and in some cases death.—
Kristi Miller,
Twin Cities,
10 May 2025
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But after going through six months of chemotherapy for Hodgkin lymphoma, which forced him to put his life on hold, Appel wanted to do something to get his life back on track.—
Carolyn Stein,
Chicago Tribune,
18 May 2025
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Then, in May 2023, he was notified that he had been identified as a match for a Hodgkin’s lymphoma patient.—
Tashan Reed,
New York Times,
16 May 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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The oldest stems, however, are also struggling, given they are affected by sooty bark canker, leaf spot and conk fungal disease.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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The vaccine uses a live, weakened form of the virus to trigger immunity.—
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 May 2025
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Probiotics may help fight and prevent respiratory infections by boosting the immune system and reducing the presence of harmful bacteria and viruses in the respiratory tract.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Verywell Health,
12 May 2025
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Teddi Mellencamp has a positive health update after being diagnosed with multiple tumors in her brain, heart, and lungs that were metastases of melanoma.—
Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
23 Apr. 2025
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These include melanoma and a rare type called Merkel cell carcinoma.—
Casey Gallagher,
Health,
15 Apr. 2025
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The structure’s decay was captured in numerous photos, and demolition seemed imminent when the decision was made to rebuild it in conjunction with the new Power & Light District.—
Randy Mason,
Kansas City Star,
14 May 2025
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The American manufacturing sector is reviving after decades of decay.—
Greg Rosalsky,
NPR,
13 May 2025
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Clear cell renal cell carcinoma is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults, making up about 80 percent of all renal cell carcinoma cases, according to the National Cancer Institute.—
Carly Thomas,
HollywoodReporter,
7 May 2025
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Instead, she was referred to a hospital, where a biopsy diagnosed her with squamous cell carcinoma.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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The anticipation of a world grown stale, the rot of what America had left behind ever ready to encroach, was of a piece with the puritan hunger for utopia.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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Not Fun For Everyone But for all its creative energy, the Italian brain rot meme has its critics.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
3 May 2025
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“Cancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancer. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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