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Recent Examples of cancer
After more than a decade of making payments toward her $100,000 mortgage, Anderson was diagnosed with cancer in 2020.
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ABC News, 3 Aug. 2025
David Roach, singer and founding member of the late-Eighties hard-rock band Junkyard, died Friday after a battle with cancer.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2025
More than 80% of young women with breast cancer find it themselves.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 3 Aug. 2025
Kaplan died Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a battle with liver cancer, his daughter, Molly Kaplan, told The Hollywood Reporter.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2025
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ABC News, 3 Aug. 2025
David Roach, singer and founding member of the late-Eighties hard-rock band Junkyard, died Friday after a battle with cancer.
—Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 3 Aug. 2025
More than 80% of young women with breast cancer find it themselves.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 3 Aug. 2025
Kaplan died Friday at his home in Los Angeles after a battle with liver cancer, his daughter, Molly Kaplan, told The Hollywood Reporter.
—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 3 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancer
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The major preventable drivers for liver cancer include Hepatitis B and C, alcohol and liver diseases associated with obesity and metabolic dysfunction.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes.com,
3 Aug. 2025
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The mosquitoes that spread the disease have developed immunity to some of the insecticides that have previously helped reduce the spread, Bier said in an interview.—
Luke Harold,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Aug. 2025
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To date, this kind of cellular therapy has shown results in liquid tumors that circulate in the blood stream, in cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, but not yet in solid tumors.—
Kerry A. Dolan,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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For example, rottweilers are prone to bone cancers, while Scottish terriers tend to get lymphoma.—
Knowable Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
16 July 2025
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Symptoms include brown-ringed leaf spots, dark stem cankers or zones of dead/dying tissue, and eventually, the collapse of plants in entire sections of a mass grouping.—
Miri Talabac,
Baltimore Sun,
1 May 2025
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The oldest stems, however, are also struggling, given they are affected by sooty bark canker, leaf spot and conk fungal disease.—
John Yoo and John Shu,
Newsweek,
24 Jan. 2025
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In this sense, AI would act like a virus that mutates against a vaccine.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
24 July 2025
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This follows mosquitoes testing positive for the virus in the Tyler Park and Highlands neighborhoods earlier this month.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
23 July 2025
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Once obese, the mice were implanted with tumor cells from a variety of cancers, including colon and melanoma.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
31 July 2025
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Beyond melanoma, the ExoPatch gel coating could be adapted to detect exosmoses released by other cancers with a solid tumor like lung, breast, colon, prostate and brain cancer.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 July 2025
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The decay of marketing effects varies by channel, audience, creative, season and competitive context.—
Cody Greco,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Although abrupt, the decision follows years of concern about the decay of U.S. Antarctic scientific infrastructure, exacerbated by hesitations from both agencies about starting big new projects in the face of ongoing federal budget uncertainty.—
Nadia Drake,
Scientific American,
22 July 2025
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That’s when she was diagnosed with cancer — stage 4 invasive ductal carcinoma.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
20 July 2025
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Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of skin cancer, which occurs most often on areas of fair skin that are exposed to the sun, including the head and neck.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN Money,
16 July 2025
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For me, no scent will ever capture the promise of freedom and transgression and youthful reinvention quite like the sweet rot of New York City garbage on a summer night in, say, the East Village.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
10 July 2025
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Gi-hun’s Christ-like sacrifice can only do so much—the rot is worldwide.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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“Cancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancer. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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