cancers

plural of cancer

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Recent Examples of cancers The test, which requires an in-person blood collection, screens for over 50 types of cancers by looking for DNA shed by specific cancer cells. Sara Braun, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025 And among early-onset cancers, colorectal cancer hovers near the top of the list. Andrea Kane, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025 About 80% of breast cancers are the invasive ductal type, which occurs when cancer cells grow in the milk ducts and invade the surrounding breast tissue. Dr. Jamie Parkerson, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2025 The company’s ethos is centered on significantly shortening the drug discovery and development process, ultimately creating medicines to treat the most significant killers, starting with aggressive cancers like breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma. Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 29 Sep. 2025 Researchers at Indiana University and the University of Florida analyzed the incidence of 14 cancers in adults with obesity who were prescribed GLP-1s, comparing them to cancer rates in non-users. Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2025 Metastatic cancers, referred to as a Stage 4 cancer, are unpredictable even with treatment. Mark Tatge, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 Hispanic and Latino women are a priority due to their higher incidence of aggressive cancers such as triple-negative breast cancer. Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025 But other gastrointestinal cancers are rising in the young right alongside colorectal cancer, the new review found. Brian Mastroianni, Health, 19 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancers
Noun
  • Instead, the soldiers carried bacteria that cause enteric fever and relapsing fever, two diseases that may have hastened the army’s downfall.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Both diseases would have been deadly in the early 1800s in the absence of sanitary conditions and antibiotics.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • All the vaccines available for children this year protect against three different influenza viruses (two A viruses and one B virus).
    Dr. Kristina Bryant, Boston Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
  • And a third found that the medication may have a broader antiviral effect against other respiratory viruses, including the influenza virus.
    Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Turns out, LLMs get brain rot, too.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Oct. 2025
  • These sections root the story’s cosmic dread in America’s historical rot, and the Muschiettis, Fuchs, and Kane envision a three-season project around this material, each set in a different era.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025

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“Cancers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancers. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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