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Recent Examples of cancer
In 2020: Actor Chadwick Boseman died of colon cancer at 43, shocking and saddening countless fans.
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Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The Princess of Wales has also been candid about the struggles she’s had after her cancer.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 Aug. 2025
After multiple rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and tumor extractions, Allen went into remission the following year, though months later her CT scans showed her cancer had returned and spread to her lungs.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Former State Senator Rocky De Witt died of cancer in June, prompting the special election.
—Robert Birsel
sonam Sheth, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
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Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
The Princess of Wales has also been candid about the struggles she’s had after her cancer.
—Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 27 Aug. 2025
After multiple rounds of chemotherapy, radiation and tumor extractions, Allen went into remission the following year, though months later her CT scans showed her cancer had returned and spread to her lungs.
—Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Former State Senator Rocky De Witt died of cancer in June, prompting the special election.
—Robert Birsel
sonam Sheth, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancer
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Those drugs, which target rare diseases, and some newer cancer treatments are part of the reason Sun Life Financial covered 47 claims last year that cost over $3 million.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
10 Sep. 2025
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Certain health conditions, including liver disease, cancer, diabetes or HIV, or immunosuppressants, raise the risk for severe illness.—
Mollye Barrows,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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Bergen and Louis Malle were married from 1980 until his death from lymphoma in 1995, USA TODAY previously reported.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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According to the Los Angeles Times, Louis died at 63 years old in 1995 from complications related to lymphoma.—
Jessica Booth,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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The plane trees that line the historic canal, once captured in the glow of childhood and sunlight, are now dying—devastated by an invasive fungal disease known as canker stain.—
Lee Sharrock,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 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 Browns are a virus for seasonal depression.—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The virus, which is spread by bodily fluids, is endemic in animal populations in Central and West Africa, and there are periodic outbreaks.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The study included 132 patients with melanoma (a deadly form of skin cancer) and nonsmall cell lung cancer (the most common type of lung cancer).—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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When tested on human T cells, which had been developed to recognize a range of tumor antigens, zeaxanthin bolstered the immune cells' power in killing off melanoma, multiple myeloma and glioblastoma cells.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
3 Sep. 2025
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Exposure to warm, humid air and bugs in the outdoors will speed up the decay even more.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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The quest has led us down many theoretically interesting avenues, spawning ideas like extra dimensions, supersymmetry, proton decay, string theory, and many others.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
5 Sep. 2025
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Applying the sunscreen and avoiding the sun can help protect against basal cell carcinoma, according to Mayo Clinic.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
31 Aug. 2025
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In the second image, Ramsay put his stitches on display after doctors removed a basal cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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The goal of the game, as the title would suggest, is to steal brain rot characters from other players.—
Safiyah Riddle,
Fortune,
7 Sep. 2025
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Multiple videos show kids sobbing over losing their brain rot character.—
Annabelle Canela,
Parents,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Cancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancer. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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