How to Use tumor in a Sentence

tumor

noun
  • The tumor is not larger than 5 cm but has spread to the lymph nodes.
    Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 13 Aug. 2024
  • In 70% of the cases the initial tumor can be removed, and it is cured.
    Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Sanchez played with the tumor in his leg last year as a freshman at Tempe.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The mix turned out to be a soup of free-floating lymphoma cells that were shed by the tumor.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The goal of the first stage (as with every stage) is to remove the entire tumor.
    Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 17 July 2024
  • The right was visibly more swollen than the left because of the tumor.
    Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • This could be a key to their longevity and avoidance of tumors.
    Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • One of the major crises of his life was the diagnosis of a brain tumor back in 1986.
    Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The tumor had spread through the thyroid gland, onto the carotid artery and into the tracheal rings.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Doctors tend to use MRI’s to understand the size of a tumor.
    Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 22 July 2024
  • The cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor, said her husband, James Biber.
    Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • A number of the songs were written the day Seaborn’s tumor was discovered.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 May 2023
  • The test works by looking for cancer signals from DNA shed by tumors in the blood stream.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 23 May 2024
  • And because the growth was in his midbrain stem, there was no way to remove the tumor, said his mom, Huifan Chan.
    Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The man, named Mo, had died from complications of a brain tumor.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The disease had taken root in her colon and spread to her liver, coating it in tumors.
    Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In the active monitoring group, 9% of the tumors had spread, compared to half that many in the treatment groups.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
  • This syndrome can cause endocrine glands to grow tumors on them.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Scans revealed Miller had an eight-centimeter-wide tumor on the right side of his brain.
    Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Her husband, the architect James Biber, said the cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor.
    Penelope Green, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The president's eldest son, Beau, died from a brain tumor.
    Kevin McGill, ajc, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Finding and killing only those cells flagged as part of a tumor offers a way to fight cancer.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
  • After my son got a brain tumor, his treatment left him unable to speak.
    Rob Delaney, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The tumor, which was the size of a football, was eventually removed.
    Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Testing to look for circulating tumor DNA in the blood is not new.
    Colin Pritchard Professor, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Untreated, the tumor would first blind her, then slowly kill her.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • This common malignant tumor arises in the cerebellum, a part of the brain located at the base of the skull.
    Jordan Greene, Peoplemag, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Three-quarters of the participants had had their brain tumors come back at least twice.
    Brenda Goodman, CNN, 13 Mar. 2024
  • They were subsequently hit by another car in 2008, which caused a tumor to start growing in their brain.
    James Factora, Them, 9 Sep. 2024
  • In May of this year, Fujimori announced he had been diagnosed with a malignant tumor.
    Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 12 Sep. 2024

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