cancer

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I interviewed and met with three separate cancer specialists including the head of oncology for a cancer research center in the top 10 worldwide; the answer to her cancer was an extensive regiment of cytotoxins followed by radiation, despite her heart tests which came back with less than 50\% efficiency for her left ventricle.

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  1. noun Any of various malignant neoplasms characterized by the proliferation of anaplastic cells that tend to invade surrounding tissue and metastasize to new body sites.
  2. noun The pathological condition characterized by such growths.
  3. noun A pernicious, spreading evil: A cancer of bigotry spread through the community.

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  • The lights grew brighter, the moments stretching to lifetimes.z Hayden wondered if the cancer was affecting his sight, wondered if this is what it feels like when you are about to die. —  Asimov'sSF,June2008
  • Well, this cancer is a very uncertain measure of my time and so I brought forward a book that I've had in the back of my mind for years and have begun to work on it, but it's not something I can talk about. —  Novel Journey
  • The woman returned to the hospital four years later when her cancer was already at an advanced stage. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
  • Oh dear .. unfortunately this sounds like the cancer is a lot worse than it really is. —  Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton
  • According to the European School of Oncology, over half a million news cases of prostate cancer are diagnosed every year world wide, and the cancer is the direct cause of over 200,000 deaths. —  NutraIngredients RSS
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  1. Middle English; see canker.

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  1. Latin cancer (cancr-) = Greek καρκίνος, a crab, also in astronomical and medical senses; cf. in same senses Sanskrit karkata, karkataka, later Hindustani kark, Hindi kekra, a crab, also in astronomical sense. Hence (from L.), through Anglo-Saxon, canker, q. v., and, through F., chancre, q. v.
 

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