carcinoma

noun

Definition of carcinomanext
as in malignancy

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Recent Examples of carcinoma 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 09, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2026 Merck and Moderna are studying the vaccine in several trials across other tumors, such as non-small cell lung cancer, bladder cancer and renal cell carcinoma. — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026 And because of pathology reports that came back, I was informed that all the tissue surrounding that fiber adenoma had invasive carcinoma, and that was not on any of my mammograms. — Madison Sawyer, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2026 During this same period, I was also treated for basal cell carcinoma on my face. — Denise Petski, Deadline, 27 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for carcinoma
Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcinoma
  1. malignancy
  2. melanoma
  3. lymphoma
  4. cancer
  5. polyp
Noun
  • Radiologists are required to compare new scans to prior scans to determine the malignancy risk of each nodule detected.
    — Oran Muduroglu, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The drug, brand name Rasonque, is the first to attack a genetic cause of the aggressive, highly lethal malignancy.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of malignancy
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  • Merck and Moderna reported in August that adding their mRNA cancer vaccine to an existing treatment slowed the return and spread of melanoma.
    — Allison DeAngelis, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
  • The drug, combined with Merck’s Keytruda, met goals in more than 1,100 patients with higher-risk or advanced melanoma.
    — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of melanoma
Noun
  • Adami was diagnosed with stage 4 follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
    — Max Darrow, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Caribou Biosciences is shutting down after failing to raise the money necessary to fund a late-stage clinical trial of its off-the-shelf CAR-T therapy for lymphoma, the company said Tuesday.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of lymphoma
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  • Amount of recent grant to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation to fund the largest global research initiative into the rise of breast cancer rates in young women.
    — Jenny B. Fine, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Last year, Manilow revealed that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and that surgery would require him to postpone several performances.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of cancer
Noun
  • But at night that process stops, and a coral polyp’s only source of oxygen is the water around it.
    — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
  • Adults with a history of precancerous colon polyps (adenomas) had gut bacteria that remained different from people who’d never had polyps, and some patterns resembled those seen in colorectal cancer.
    — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 27 May 2026
Definition of polyp

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“Carcinoma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carcinoma. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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