How to Use cancer in a Sentence

cancer

noun

• She learned that she has cancer.
• Eating certain foods may help reduce the risk of cancer.
• Advanced cancers are more difficult to treat.
• He was diagnosed with cancer.
• I'm a Taurus, but my best friend is a Cancer.
• The good news: this type of cancer has a high cure rate.
  — David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2024
• Both also agree that cancer is more of a marathon than a race.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 4 Feb. 2024
• Turns out her husband had died of cancer a few years back.
  — Hazlitt, 1 Feb. 2023
• Deke, Dhea and Delvin formed a close bond after Delvin's wife died from cancer.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 3 Feb. 2023
• Biden's eldest son, Beau, died of brain cancer in 2015.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 8 Feb. 2023
• Dawn grows her hair out, then chops it off to donate it to cancer patients.
  — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
• The cause was breast cancer, her daughter Juliette Rossant said.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• The conductor has been battling a dire form of brain cancer since 2021.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2024
• It’s been about a month since Olivia Munn shared her breast cancer diagnosis with the world.
  — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 17 Apr. 2024
• Beauty and the beast:Two high school athletes who battled same bone cancer go to prom.
  — USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• For background, my aunt (Anna’s mom) died of cancer in 2019.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• His wife died of ovarian cancer last year, and his son is in his thirties.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• The film follows the rocky romance — from meet cute to cancer — between Michael, played by Parsons, and Kit.
  — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• Well that aims to fund holistic care for cancer patients.
  — Glamour, 2 Oct. 2024
• Some of the increase in heart disease and cancer deaths may be an effect of the pandemic.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2023
• Catherine, Princess of Wales—Kate to those (many millions of people) who love her—has cancer.
  — Chloe Fox, Vogue, 23 Mar. 2024
• My husband had surgery the first time he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
• This difference led to more deaths from heart disease and lung cancer for men.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Nov. 2023
• The hormone therapy used in the trial raised the risk of breast cancer and failed to reduce heart disease.
  — Maggie Fox, TIME, 5 Apr. 2024
• Shauna had cancer as a child, which stunted the growth of her pituitary gland.
  — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 17 July 2023
• The cancer advanced rapidly, and Nicholas passed away that August.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2024
• At least 45 attribute the victims’ illness or death to cancer.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
• These siblings are all from my mom’s first husband, who died of cancer before I was born.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2024
• You were diagnosed with cancer as a teenager and suffered from septic shock this year.
  — Theresa Pichler, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
• John Reardon revealed that he was diagnosed with tonsil cancer.
  — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025