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
• His work led to a raft of cancer drugs that seek to block the growth of a tumor’s blood supply.
  — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
• 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
• The drugs have beaten back all but one tumor in Monje’s lung.
  — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024
• In 2003, doctors found that Melanie had a benign tumor of the pituitary gland, about the size of a plum.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 28 July 2022
• 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
• If surgery is not possible, the goal is to shrink your tumors and treat your symptoms.
  — Sayaka Blickenderfer, Phd, Health, 18 Sep. 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
• Surgeons on the Eastern Shore already had removed a large, late-stage tumor from the right side of Miller’s brain in 2019.
  — Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 31 Aug. 2022
• Her husband, the architect James Biber, said the cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
• In contrast, control mice saw their tumors continue to grow, and all had died by the 20-day mark.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024
• 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
• But doctors were unable to remove the tumor entirely, his mother told CNN last week.
  — Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 16 Oct. 2024
• Before that, doctors performed Gamma Knife surgery to remove a brain tumor, and gave Eddie steroid pills to combat swelling.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024