How to Use glioblastoma in a Sentence

glioblastoma

noun
  • The Bleecker Street chief was diagnosed with glioblastoma in January.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 6 Oct. 2024
  • The cause was a glioblastoma, said his son, Karim Raoul.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Biden’s son, Beau, died of a brain cancer called glioblastoma in 2015.
    Angus Chen and Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023
  • The cause of death was glioblastoma, a fast-growing brain tumor.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The cause was glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer, said her friend Diane Dodge.
    Washington Post, 31 May 2021
  • Turner was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a cancer of the brain, in the fall of 2022.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024
  • From 3 to 6 percent of glioblastoma patients are cured; one of them will bear my name.
    New York Times, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor, said her husband, James Biber.
    Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The cancers include glioblastomas, which grow rapidly and are very hard to treat.
    Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2017
  • The technique could give Miller and thousands of others with glioblastomas far longer lives.
    Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 2 Oct. 2019
  • He was diagnosed with a grade 4 glioblastoma—here's what that means.
    Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 12 Oct. 2020
  • It was later found to be a form of glioblastoma, which was the same cancer that ended the life of Sen. Edward Kennedy eight years ago.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The 53-year-old Moore has glioblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer that can affect the brain or spinal cord.
    Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 30 July 2021
  • Her husband, the architect James Biber, said the cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The cause was a brain tumor known as a glioblastoma, which was diagnosed in July 2017.
    Siobhan Hughes, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2018
  • Ill-famed virus could be effective against cells that cause glioblastoma.
    Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The cause was glioblastoma multiforme, a type of brain cancer, his brother, Roy, said.
    Alex Williams, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Beau Biden died of glioblastoma in 2015, the same form of brain cancer that McCain was diagnosed with in July.
    Paul Kane, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2017
  • The breakthroughs that seem to be taking place in regards to glioblastoma is so remarkable.
    Fox News, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Hazen lost his wife, Nicole, to a battle with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.
    Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Only 5% of people with glioblastoma survive for five years or more.
    David Begnaud, Analisa Novak, CBS News, 21 July 2023
  • Moats’ health was declining, after three surgeries to try and thwart the glioblastoma that had attacked his brain.
    Pat Stoetzer, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Brit has battled glioblastoma since his diagnosis in the fall of 2022 and fought every day.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
  • But nobody's ever done the study to see if the brain is affected, because glioblastoma is such a rare disease.
    Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The 37-year-old mother of five from Wyoming, Michigan, had glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Sep. 2017
  • The six-term senator has been battling a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma and has been in Arizona since Dec. 17.
    Bree Burkitt, USA TODAY, 20 May 2018
  • The cause was glioblastoma brain cancer, his family said through an HOK spokeswoman.
    Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Randy Tenney, 65, passed away after a months-long battle with glioblastoma, a rare brain cancer.
    Gerren Keith Gaynor, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2020
  • Her family said the cause was a glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain tumor.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Parker, the British singer who rose to fame as a member of the boy band, died in March almost two years after he was first diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2022

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