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Recent Examples of cancer
Finasteride, prescribed for hair loss or enlarged prostate, and bicalutamide, used in prostate cancer treatment, can shift testosterone’s effects and allow breast tissue to grow.
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Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
His wife Ronny’s death from pancreatic cancer also brought Zinner home to lead the Miami Cancer Institute.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
All donations raised by The Breasties and Reclaim October go to the Magee-Women's Research Institute for stage 4 cancer research.
—Ariel Nagi, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Now cancer-free, Menounos credits her outcome to trusting her gut and pushing for more tests.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 25 Oct. 2025
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Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2025
His wife Ronny’s death from pancreatic cancer also brought Zinner home to lead the Miami Cancer Institute.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
All donations raised by The Breasties and Reclaim October go to the Magee-Women's Research Institute for stage 4 cancer research.
—Ariel Nagi, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025
Now cancer-free, Menounos credits her outcome to trusting her gut and pushing for more tests.
—Anna Halkidis, Parents, 25 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancer
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Featuring women at the intersections of gender, age, disability, and disease, Pinjar is a nuanced illustration of this.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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The country has also eradicated once-rampant tropical diseases like malaria.—
Angelica Ang,
Fortune,
30 Oct. 2025
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Her review of studies through 2025 found that people with long-term, high exposure to glyphosate, such as those working on farms, had a roughly 40% higher risk of developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma compared to those who were never exposed.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Big Lebowski star, 75, stepped back from screen acting following a bout with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2020 and a serious case of COVID-19 shortly thereafter.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Oct. 2025
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Fungal disease, butternut canker, wiped out about 90% of the state's butternut trees.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
9 Oct. 2025
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Camellia dieback and canker disease is characterized by sudden wilting and yellowing of the foliage and die-back of branch tips.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
1 Oct. 2025
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When further trained on human and virus protein interactions, PLM-Interact again outperformed existing models in predicting how viruses interact with host proteins.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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All of the World Health Organization’s regions have committed to eliminate measles by 2030, defined by the absence of local virus transmission for any period longer than 12 months.—
Deidre McPhillips,
CNN Money,
27 Oct. 2025
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Researchers at the University of Florida and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center analyzed data from more than 1,000 cancer patients with Stage 3 and 4 non-small cell lung cancer and metastatic melanoma who were treated at MD Anderson from 2019 to 2023.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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Antagonistic stem cell fates under stress govern decisions between hair greying and melanoma.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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Despite years of legal battles over the relocations, more than 150,000 bodies were exhumed from the 1920s to the early 1940s for the trip to Colma, each in various stages of decay.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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Why didn’t evolution produce a more dependable version of the human body, less prone to malfunction and decay?—
Lucinda Rosenfeld,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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Lobular breast cancer is the second most common form of breast cancer, but remains far less recognized than its counterpart, ductal carcinoma.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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The biopsy confirmed ductal carcinoma.—
Lauryn Higgins,
Flow Space,
27 Oct. 2025
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Turns out, LLMs get brain rot, too.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Oct. 2025
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These sections root the story’s cosmic dread in America’s historical rot, and the Muschiettis, Fuchs, and Kane envision a three-season project around this material, each set in a different era.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
22 Oct. 2025
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“Cancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancer. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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