cancers

plural of cancer

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Recent Examples of cancers 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
Noun
  • Parents will be especially alarmed and this will place terrible burdens on pediatricians who will need to assuage their worries in order to provide important protections against serious and sometimes fatal diseases.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Nurabot is currently being piloted in Taichung Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan, on a ward that treats diseases associated with the lungs, face and neck, including lung cancer and asthma.
    Rebecca Cairns, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • With respiratory viruses also prevalent in colder weather, how can people distinguish between seasonal allergies and a virus?
    Katia Hetter, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Made from recyclable, all-weather polystyrene that is designed to last and never fade, the bench looks like real wood without the threat of rot and termites.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025
  • In their place is the attention economy, a dystopian marketplace of slop merchants, brain-rot peddlers, AI scrapyards, and extortionate big-box streaming services with junk on the shelves, all haggling for your time and money.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Cancers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancers. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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