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Recent Examples of carcinoma
The law is named for Deb Robertson, a former social worker from Lombard who had an aggressive case of neuroendocrine carcinoma.
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Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin is a type of cancer that starts as a growth of cells on the skin.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 2 Dec. 2025
Tattooed participants had higher risks of skin cancers — including melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma — as well as lymphoma, with hazards rising further for tattoos larger than a palm.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 28 Nov. 2025
Eggert's doctors diagnosed her with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer in early December 2023.
—Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
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Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin is a type of cancer that starts as a growth of cells on the skin.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 2 Dec. 2025
Tattooed participants had higher risks of skin cancers — including melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma — as well as lymphoma, with hazards rising further for tattoos larger than a palm.
—Bloomberg, Oc Register, 28 Nov. 2025
Eggert's doctors diagnosed her with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer in early December 2023.
—Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 27 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcinoma
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An effective treatment for pancreatic cancer would represent a major advance against one of the most lethal malignancies.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
22 Dec. 2025
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The researchers will now investigate its efficacy in breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, melanoma and other malignancies, and fine tune delivery and dosage methods.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Treatments that have been effective on melanoma or lung cancer have mostly failed in pancreatic cancer.—
City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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Buchwald and his colleagues are in the process of enrolling patients in a similar randomized trial that will test the timing theory on immunotherapy for melanoma patients.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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The 67-year-old is the chair and trustee of the Seahawks and the Portland Trail Blazers with ownership over both passing to her after the 2018 death of her brother, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, after a battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
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The actor believed the spot was caused by his lymphoma, but later found out the tumor was actually unrelated.—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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Ellen Rudolph’s home was damaged in the Palisades fire and then her husband died of cancer.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Feb. 2026
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The teenager was undergoing cancer treatment and had been home visiting her family for the weekend when her father, Ruben Torres Maldonado, was arrested in October 2025 at a Home Depot store in suburban Chicago, a GoFundMe page set up for the family states.—
Thao Nguyen,
USA Today,
16 Feb. 2026
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Guthrie's surgery involved the removal of a polyp on her vocal chords.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
20 Jan. 2026
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In a study of more than 29,000 female nurses published this month, researchers reported that those who consumed the most ultraprocessed foods were 45% more likely to develop a certain type of precancerous colorectal polyp than those who consumed the least.—
The New York Times News Service Syndicate,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Carcinoma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carcinoma. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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