CANCER. Synonyms: 97 Similar and Opposite Words

cancer

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Recent Examples of cancer At the 2026 Women in Power Summit on Monday — between conversations about leading with intention, balance and influence — two experts shared what every woman should know in regard to skin and breast cancer. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026 After Harry is diagnoses with cancer, the unlikely duo teams up to make a film together as a way of confronting an uncertain future. — Katherine Brodsky, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026 But better cancer care is about more than better cancer drugs. — Vidya Puthenpura, Hartford Courant, 18 Sep. 2026 That’s one of the reasons why Polizzi is now partnering with F Cancer, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing early detection and prevention for cancer. — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cancer

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The layer plays a vital role in absorbing the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, which can cause diseases such as skin cancer.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2026
Introducing a fish foreign to the region could bring diseases into the water.

— John Donegan LONG BEACH POST, Arkansas Online, 15 Sep. 2026

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In 2011 he was diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma, a rare cancer affecting about 1 in 200,000 people yearly according to the Cleveland Clinic.

— Michele Miller, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
He was then diagnosed with stage 4 mantle B-cell lymphoma, and the treatment was intense.

— Sophia Leone, FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of lymphoma

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Botryosphaeria canker and dieback are attributed to several causal agents in the Botryosphaeriaceae family.

— Emily Leahy, Hartford Courant, 7 Sep. 2026
Monitor for Pests and Disease Healthy plants are better at surviving heat stress than plants that are already weakened, so keep an eye on your tomato plants throughout the growing season for common pests, like tomato hornworm, and diseases, such as early or late blight, white mold, and canker.

— Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 30 May 2026

Definition of canker

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Mandel's futuristic story of a world ravaged by a lethal flu virus was already a bestseller and National Book Award finalist six years before the coronavirus pandemic gave it the unwanted status of prophecy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026
Both occurred in August and a coroner reported that the virus itself caused one of the deaths.

— Mead Gruver, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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Ridley said that, after the production of Alien, his eldest brother, Frank, got a terminal diagnosis of melanoma.

— Jimmy Chin, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026
Patients with melanoma that had a high-risk of recurring were given vaccines and immunotherapy as treatments.

— Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of melanoma

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Ewa Mroczkowska’s production design also turns dewy embankments, decadent interiors, and sunrises over cemeteries into visions of storybook-like decay.

— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
One of them in particular, portrayed with vicious snark by Vicky Krieps, revels in the moral decay of her times, thirsting for blood.

— Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of decay

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The finding applies specifically to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), the most common form of esophageal cancer worldwide.

— Amarachi Orie, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2026
There have been rare cases of cells turning pre-cancerous, with one severe case triggering a squamous cell carcinoma, though erythema ab igne is typically regarded as a benign condition.

— Mike McRae September 09, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of carcinoma

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Hossain and her collaborators have conjured an internalized hellscape marked by sensual photography, gnarly cyst makeup, and suffocating matrimonial rituals involving turmeric and milk — all redolent with upper-class heteronormative rot.

— Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2026
Interestingly, though, Oppenheim doesn’t see the media as inherently corrupting; in Primetime, television is simply an empty space, and the desperation to fill it with the lowest common denominator is where the rots starts to set in.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2026

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