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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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Indoor cats live for 15 to 17 years on average, while outdoor felines live only for 2 to 5 years due to dangers such as extreme temperatures, wildlife, and disease.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Oct. 2025
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In fact, foods like fatty fish, olive oil, berries, and leafy greens have strong evidence supporting their strong anti-inflammatory effects and their ability to protect against chronic inflammatory diseases.—
Jillian Kubala,
Health,
22 Oct. 2025
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It is considered a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and is sometimes known as lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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The American poet Violet Ranney Lang was born in 1924 and died in 1956, of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at the age of thirty-two.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 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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The study was conducted in mice, but its implications could help scientists understand why some people develop melanoma without obvious warning signs, and how the natural mechanisms of aging could actually protect against cancer.—
Khloe Quill,
FOXNews.com,
22 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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Rates of one type of breast cancer — invasive lobular carcinoma — have been rising in the United States more than three times faster than those of all other breast cancers combined over the past decade, according to a new study.—
Faye Chiu,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
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Invasive lobular carcinoma starts in the breast glands (or lobules) that produce milk, and can spread to other parts of the body.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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If your orchid has visible signs of rot, pruning to remove diseased parts can be done at any time.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
19 Oct. 2025
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The posts from my friends and family are still there, but they are absorbed into the flow of brain rot and advertising.—
Julie Beck,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Cancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancer. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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