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Recent Examples of carcinoma
He was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, a cancer, after an asthma flare turned out to be a large mass blocking his airway.
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Bhavya Ancha, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2025
Compounding this was a squamous cell carcinoma that surfaced on my dad’s lower lip earlier this year — one that, thankfully, was fully removed with a Mohs procedure, leaving him with a small scar and some permanent numbness.
—Claire Sullivan, Footwear News, 30 May 2025
Last December, just two years after her husband died of brain cancer, the 60-year-old’s annual mammogram revealed a 2-centimeter invasive ductal carcinoma in the milk duct in her right breast.
—Nicola Bridges, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Malignant tumors are usually either squamous cell carcinoma, fibrosarcoma, melanoma, or other such as an osteosarcoma.
—Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 11 May 2025
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Bhavya Ancha, Baltimore Sun, 7 June 2025
Compounding this was a squamous cell carcinoma that surfaced on my dad’s lower lip earlier this year — one that, thankfully, was fully removed with a Mohs procedure, leaving him with a small scar and some permanent numbness.
—Claire Sullivan, Footwear News, 30 May 2025
Last December, just two years after her husband died of brain cancer, the 60-year-old’s annual mammogram revealed a 2-centimeter invasive ductal carcinoma in the milk duct in her right breast.
—Nicola Bridges, People.com, 1 Apr. 2025
Malignant tumors are usually either squamous cell carcinoma, fibrosarcoma, melanoma, or other such as an osteosarcoma.
—Dr. John De Jong, Boston Herald, 11 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcinoma
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Most striking was the test’s ability to detect malignancies long considered unscreenable—pancreatic, ovarian, and others that had eluded surveillance.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 2025
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Grail’s test identified malignancy in 1,453 of the cancer cases, missing it in 1,370.—
Siddhartha Mukherjee,
New Yorker,
16 June 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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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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In 2012: Astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman to travel into space, died at age 61 of pancreatic cancer.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
24 July 2025
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Chronic, long-term, regular, or cumulative exposure to ALAN may even be a risk factor for certain cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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But anemia can also follow blood loss from ulcers, polyps, diabetes, and other causes of internal bleeding.—
Paula Span,
Miami Herald,
18 July 2025
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In many cases the polyps and even early cancers can simply be removed during a colonoscopy.—
Richard Goldberg,
Chicago Tribune,
9 June 2025
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“Carcinoma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carcinoma. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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