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Recent Examples of cancers
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.
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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
Of the cancers linked to HPV, cervical cancer is the most common.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
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
Of the cancers linked to HPV, cervical cancer is the most common.
—Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancers
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While many consider the mammal a nuisance for raiding garbage cans and damaging property, raccoons can also carry diseases, and they probably shouldn't be kept as housepets.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Oct. 2025
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Consuming too many calories paves the way for obesity and related diseases like Type 2 diabetes.—
Stephen J. Beard,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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What begins as a search for a killer becomes a fight to uncover the rot beneath the town’s quiet surface.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
6 Oct. 2025
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Gossip fed the frenzy of the Salem Witch Trials and has been the subtext of one too many fables where mischief masks moral rot.—
Oriel FeldmanHall,
Time,
6 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Cancers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancers. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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