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Recent Examples of cancer
Mir Shamsi was diagnosed with brain cancer this year and is undergoing treatment.
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Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Dec. 2024
You were diagnosed with cancer as a teenager and suffered from septic shock this year.
—Theresa Pichler, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
The 52-year-old actress was diagnosed with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer in December 2023.
—Ashley Hume, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
It's adapted from a similar, successful project for people with cancer and their adult children.
—Kat McGowan, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
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Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 24 Dec. 2024
You were diagnosed with cancer as a teenager and suffered from septic shock this year.
—Theresa Pichler, Glamour, 23 Dec. 2024
The 52-year-old actress was diagnosed with stage 2 cribriform carcinoma breast cancer in December 2023.
—Ashley Hume, Fox News, 23 Dec. 2024
It's adapted from a similar, successful project for people with cancer and their adult children.
—Kat McGowan, NPR, 23 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cancer
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There's no evidence the disease is spreading directly between cougars, but the deaths of two unrelated animals in the same area within a short time raises concerns about how widespread the virus may already be.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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This represents an increase of 630 million individuals since 1990, with 14% of the global population with the disease.Omer Awan, Forbes, 24 Dec. 2024
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Some of the cancers were later determined to be lymphoma, colorectal and breast.Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
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The most common types include breast, prostate, lung, colorectal, melanoma, bladder, kidney, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, endometrial, pancreatic, leukemia, thyroid and liver cancers.Stephan Pechdimaldji, Newsweek, 14 Dec. 2024
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Cracks develop in the bark (cankers) and the ooze that is emitted spreads the disease.Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Nov. 2024
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Camellias are also susceptible to a number of diseases, the most serious of which are flower blight, root rot, and camellia dieback and canker.Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2024
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The finding comes from measurements of COVID virus found in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Wastewater Surveillance System.Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
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Influenza is a common respiratory virus that is categorized into four types: A, B, C and D. Type C only causes mild infections and type D is not believed to infect humans.Andy Biggs, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
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Teddi Mellencamp is sharing good news amid years of removing 17 different spots of melanoma.Charna Flam, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
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In 2021 Vitale was diagnosed with melanoma and then lymphoma.Zach Powell, The Athletic, 13 Dec. 2024
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Brain rot is thus a strikingly capacious term, enfolding the psychological and cognitive decay wrought by screen addiction, the bacteria-like content that feeds the addiction, and the argot of a generation for whom much of this content is made.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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In the early to mid 20th century, older adults quite commonly developed such severe dental decay, necessitating complete dental extractions followed by dentures by the 7th or 8th decades of life.Nina Shapiro, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Though a vast majority of people knew about the HPV vaccination, that wasn’t the case for awareness about the association between HPV and a throat cancer called oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma.Maggie O'Neill, Health, 24 Dec. 2024
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People with a personal or family history of medullary thyroid carcinoma, as well as people with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia syndrome type 2 (MEN 2), should not use these medications. 4.Karen Berger, PharmD, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2024
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For more severe cases of rot, repot the plant into fresh soil and consider propagating stem cuttings as an insurance policy.Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2024
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The year English went full brain rot. Before 2015, the average person wouldn’t be caught dead using internet slang.Vulture Editors, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Cancer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cancer. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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