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Recent Examples of cancer
Steve Gaines, a former Southern Baptist Convention president who disclosed a kidney cancer diagnosis back in 2023 while serving as pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Tennessee, has entered hospice care, a letter to members reported by Baptist Press announced.
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Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 16 Mar. 2026
Barkley — who has contributed to Vitale’s Pediatric Cancer Fund — also appreciates that Vitale has come back to the airwaves after four fights with cancer in three years.
—Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
Dolores Madigan died of cancer in 1992, and John Madigan went on to marry his second wife Elizabeth.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
My 87-year-old mother has pancreatic cancer.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
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Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 16 Mar. 2026
Barkley — who has contributed to Vitale’s Pediatric Cancer Fund — also appreciates that Vitale has come back to the airwaves after four fights with cancer in three years.
—Joe Reedy, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
Dolores Madigan died of cancer in 1992, and John Madigan went on to marry his second wife Elizabeth.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2026
My 87-year-old mother has pancreatic cancer.
—R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 16 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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The melanoma was determined to be terminal two years ago after spreading to his liver and lungs.—
David K. Li,
NBC news,
4 Mar. 2026
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Mellencamp Arroyave has undergone a public battle with melanoma after being diagnosed in 2022.—
Heather Bushman,
IndyStar,
24 Feb. 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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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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The filmmakers and inmates carried out this investigation in secret, through anonymous phone calls and surreptitious recordings, ultimately revealing systemic rot inside a sadistic prison system.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Cancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancer. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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