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Recent Examples of cancer
Breast cancer risk Antiperspirants use aluminum salts to block underarm sweat.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2026
The 10×60-minute series is based on a true story and is co-written with Marie-Ève Perron, also starring as Agathe, who loses her breasts, her partner and job after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
—Jennie Punter, Variety, 23 Mar. 2026
These same rights belong to those suffering from advanced cancer, heart disease or other terminal conditions.
—Robert S. Olick, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
Radvinsky died of cancer, the company said.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2026
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2026
The 10×60-minute series is based on a true story and is co-written with Marie-Ève Perron, also starring as Agathe, who loses her breasts, her partner and job after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
—Jennie Punter, Variety, 23 Mar. 2026
These same rights belong to those suffering from advanced cancer, heart disease or other terminal conditions.
—Robert S. Olick, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
Radvinsky died of cancer, the company said.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancer
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Dane was diagnosed last April with ALS, a disease that attacks nerves in the brain and spinal cord, stealing a person's ability to walk, breathe and often speak.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
18 Mar. 2026
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There is enormous pressure on these companies to optimize AI to make money in the short term by convincing people to use it, rather than advance science or cure disease in the long term, and to create systems that entirely replace workers rather than merely help them.—
J. Xavier Prochaska,
Mercury News,
18 Mar. 2026
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These include types of leukemia and lymphoma.—
Kaitlin Sullivan,
NBC news,
15 Mar. 2026
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Longer-term exposure increases the risk of cancers of the white blood cells, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, as well as breast cancer.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Treating canker diseases can be difficult, but proper care and watering can help.—
Samantha Johnson,
Martha Stewart,
5 Mar. 2026
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Nectria kills areas of woody tissue, sometimes creating cankers on the tree stem and large branches which in turn weaken the tree.—
Pamm Cooper,
Hartford Courant,
25 Jan. 2026
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These are all different from viral meningitis, which is the most common form of meningitis -- and usually mild -- inflammation of tissue surrounding the brain and spinal cord membranes, and caused by a virus, the CDC says.—
Mary Kekatos,
ABC News,
19 Mar. 2026
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Per the report, 141 guests and 52 crew members came down with the virus seven days into the two-week voyage.—
Joe Wilkins Published Mar 18,
Futurism,
18 Mar. 2026
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Those who use tanning beds before the age of 20 have a nearly 50% higher risk of melanoma - the deadliest form of skin cancer - according to one major analysis.—
Will Stone,
NPR,
19 Mar. 2026
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Before then, it was thought that indoor tanners were about 75% percent more likely to develop melanoma than those who have never tanned indoors, and that just one session in a tanning bed could increase the risk by 20 percent.—
Tori Crowther,
Allure,
19 Mar. 2026
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Furthermore, the robot avoids the inevitable performance decay seen in technologies such as solar panels or nuclear generators, ensuring a longer operational lifespan in the field.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Mar. 2026
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Tooth decay can begin very early in a child’s life.—
Erika Edwards,
NBC news,
19 Mar. 2026
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She was also diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma in her 20s before getting diagnosed again decades later with squamous cell cancer—a form of skin cancer—that took two surgeries to remove.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
15 Mar. 2026
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Researchers found people on vegetarian diets had a lower risk of five cancers compared with their meat-eating counterparts — though vegetarians had nearly double the risk of a cancer in the esophagus called squamous cell carcinoma.—
Bloomberg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Mar. 2026
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But they are increasingly undermined by colleagues who have traded the reporter’s notebook for an activist’s megaphone, and that rot has worked its way into the core of some of the largest newsrooms in the country.—
Julian Baron,
Baltimore Sun,
18 Mar. 2026
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Possible diseases include powdery mildew, blight, crown rot, leaf gall, root rot, leaf spot, and rust.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Cancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancer. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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