cancercan‧cer /ˈkænsə $ -ər/ ●●● S2 W2 noun 
A lot of cancers can now be treated successfully.lung/breast/stomach etc cancer Smoking causes lung cancer. She was told last year that she had cancer. He died of cancer last month.cancer of cancer of the womb a new treatment which effectively kills cancer cells2[countable] an evil influence that affects a lot of people and is difficult to stop: Drug abuse is the cancer of our society.—cancerous adjective: a cancerous growth cancerous cells
WORD ORIGINcancer
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin ‘crab, cancer’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- cancer of the liver
- He died of cancer at the age of 63.
- lung cancer
- The mayor has called drug abuse "a cancer on our society."
- An extra tablespoon sprinkled over the breakfast cereal can help control irritable bowel syndrome, piles, appendicitis and bowel cancer.
- And his wife Marion, 37, has had a major cancer op.
- Childhood cancers are diffuse, that is, they affect the whole body, so systematic treatment is the rule.
- Nowhere in film had she seen images of people outliving cancer.
- The authors indicate therefore that excesses of prostatic cancer in industrial workforces are unlikely to be due to external radiation.
- They knew all about the mills, about the cancer.
- What was your reaction when you were first told you had cancer?
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Smoking causes lung cancer. She was told last year that she had cancer. He died of cancer last month. a new treatment which effectively kills cancer cellsCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He lost his father to cancer (=his father died of cancer) last year. drought-stricken farmers a support group for cancer sufferers
1[countable, uncountable] a very serious disease in which cells in one part of the body start to grow in a way that is not normal: Smoking causes lung cancer. She was told last year that she had cancer. He died of cancer last month. a new treatment which effectively kills cancer cells· Already there are many treatments which destroy cancer cells.
(=one that raises money to treat or cure cancer)· The event raised thousands of pounds for a cancer charity.
He lost his father to cancer (=his father died of cancer) last year.· One in three cancer patients suffers no pain at all.
· Too much exposure to the sun can cause skin cancer.
(=in someone’s body)· The cancer had spread to his brain.
· She was diagnosed with stomach cancer last year.
drought-stricken farmers a support group for cancer sufferers· She began to investigate alternative cancer treatments.
· He helped raise £2,000 for a dying cancer victim.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· The test was oversold as an insurance against developing cervical and uterine cancer when it was no such thing.· Doctors say cervical cancer often has no symptoms.· The Papanicolaou test for cervical cancer detection: a triumph and a tragedy.· Thompson said the Pap smear only detects cervical cancer; it does not detect ovarian cancer or endometrial cancer.· Prevalence of human papillomavirus in cervical cancer: a worldwide perspective.· The average age of women with invasive cervical cancer is between 45 and 50.· New developments in cervical cancer screening and prevention.· The risk factors for pre-invasive cervical cancer, also called cervical dysplasia, and cervical cancer are the same.
· Therefore, of 180 patients eligible for colonic cancer surveillance in ulcerative colitis 160 were entered into the programme.· Invitro, high extracellular calcium concentrations inhibit the proliferation of human colonic epithelial cells and several colonic cancer cell lines.· A reduced fibre content of the diet on its own might be an important contributor to the development of colonic cancer.· Of these 25 remain well; 13 ar unaccounted for, and one died from colonic cancer.
· Calcium may protect against colorectal cancer by reducing epithelial cell turnover.· The specific carcinogens, however, that cause the colorectal cancers in humans remain unknown.· Differences in the glycosylation of cell surface components of colorectal cancer cells have been previously shown.· An altered glycosylation phenotype in colorectal cancer.· In addition, the distribution of characteristics known to affect survival in colorectal cancer was similar in the two study groups.· Setting the stage in colorectal cancer?· A range of genetic alterations have recently been described in colorectal cancer and its benign precursor, the large bowel adenoma.· The strong association between colorectal dysplasia and cancer in ulcerative colitis was described in 1967.
· Some tobacco companies even suggested that people might become smokers to relieve the irritation caused by a developing cancer!· The younger a person is when he or she starts smoking, the greater the risk of developing lung cancer.· Staff learned how to minimise the risks of developing cancer and how to recognise the symptoms.· Eventually the chances of developing lung cancer and other diseases will also be lessened, until they are the same as for non-smokers.· Studies indicate that the risk of developing skin cancer is significantly increased by excessive sun exposure during childhood.· Such was the perceived risk of a patient developing cancer that prophylactic colectomy has been recommended.· Does this mean that I am more at risk of developing skin cancer?· An increased risk of developing gastric cancer after previous vagotomy has also been reported.
· A cohort study of gastric cancer incidence among cimetidine users previously published is extended with additional three years of observation.· It is speculated that this increases protection against gastric cancer.· Ascorbic acid, the reduced form of vitamin C, is thought to protect against gastric cancer.· H pylori infection has been shown in prospective epidemiological studies to be a risk factor for gastric cancer.· However, the random biopsy specimens in the patients with early gastric cancer did not show dysplasia at either investigation.· The authors thus concluded that the excess mortality noted for gastric cancer was probably related to socioeconomic class rather than coal mining.· It has been suggested that gastric cancer which occurs in some manual workers is occupation related.· The excess for gastric cancer was noted only for men over 70 years of age.
· At one point he was involved in research on the possible viral aetiology of human cancer.· The virus proved highly selective in killing several lines of human cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures.· The human cancer cell could not be more different.· This virus causes glandular fever and is also associated with a human cancer called Burkitt's lymphoma.· An altered expression of such adhesion molecules may influence the aggressiveness of local infiltrative growth and metastasis in human cancers.· It has been previously shown that the expression of integrins is differently diminished in a chain-specific manner in human colorectal cancer.· Demonstrating that a virus isolated from a human cancer can cause further cancers in other humans is clearly an unacceptable experiment!
· Most cases of ovarian cancer arise on the epithelial surface of the ovary, not in the ovary itself.· In order to diagnose ovarian cancer, you have to do surgery to obtain a biopsy.· Anything that inhibits ovulation - eg, pregnancy or oral contraception - reduces the risk of ovarian cancer.· Thompson said the Pap smear only detects cervical cancer; it does not detect ovarian cancer or endometrial cancer.· Trials have been encouraging, with a 30-35 percent remission rate in over 200 ovarian cancer patients.· Bobbi Olson was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring of 1997.· Every year 6,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer and 4,000 die.· Rehnquist confronted it himself when his wife, Natalie, died in 1991 after a long battle with ovarian cancer.
· Ten patients had been treated for prostate cancer and one had experienced a spinal cord injury.· On that day, Mobutu made a triumphal return from four months of convalescence abroad after prostate cancer surgery.· The Government has increased research into prostate cancer twentyfold, to £4.2m a year.· A prostate cancer patient, Milken continues to search for cures for the deadly disease, Reese said.· Mobutu, undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, has been operating largely from his villa in nearby RoquebruneCap-Martin.· Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, wants a special stamp to raise funds to fight prostate cancer.· Mitterrand, a Socialist, had been ill with prostate cancer for several years.· Mr Mitterrand, who had suffered from prostate cancer, spent his last days in his study near the Eiffel Tower.
· Local eradication of prostatic cancer probably occurs more commonly with radical prostatectomy than with radiotherapy.· Having been diagnosed with prostatic cancer some time ago, &.· Opinion is divided about the value of screening for prostatic cancer and about the management of localised disease.· Screening for prostatic cancer Editor, - Fritz H Schröder makes a cogent case against widespread screening for cancer of the prostate.· This has never been shown for prostatic cancer.· Assessing treatment in early prostatic cancer is difficult.· The authors indicate therefore that excesses of prostatic cancer in industrial workforces are unlikely to be due to external radiation.· The authors do not state whether they actually treated the patients found to have prostatic cancer.
· Armstrong recovered from testicular cancer to compete in one of sport's most gruelling tests a year later.· The drug was banned more than 20 years later when the adults who were exposed in utero developed vaginal and testicular cancers.· As a 17-year-old, Daniel was diagnosed as suffering from testicular cancer and was treated at the Royal Marsden.· Former world cycling champion Lance Armstrong is returning to the sport after a year-long battle with testicular cancer next year.· Was this a result of pollution and increased testicular cancer, which has doubled in the past 20 years?· Prostate cancer has risen by 200 %, testicular cancer in young men by 300 %.· Previously chemotherapy was most commonly used to treat men suffering from testicular cancer.· Hamilton, 39, was diagnosed with testicular cancer in March.
· Differentiated thyroid cancer occurs much more commonly in women than in men, largely in the premenopausal years.· Injuries and thyroid cancer sidelined Jackson often in the last three years, when he won only five games.· After five years of chemotherapy her thyroid cancer went into remission, though she still has to have annual checks.· The most probable outcome is 100-150 deaths from thyroid cancer over the same period.· Apart from thyroid cancer it has not seemed that any illnesses could be detected and so the matter has not been pursued.· There was also an excess of endometrial and thyroid cancers.
NOUN· Populations at risk for the development of large bowel cancer are also generally at higher risk for development of coronary heart disease.· An extra tablespoon sprinkled over the breakfast cereal can help control irritable bowel syndrome, piles, appendicitis and bowel cancer.· One of these combinations is p53 and c-ras, both frequently activated in large bowel cancers.· Molecular biology of colorectal neoplasia Large bowel cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the western world.· Discussion Overexpression and mutation of the p53 gene is now well described in large bowel cancer.· Patients 102, 205, 206, 304, and 305 died from bowel cancer associated with multiple polyps.· Elizabeth Harrison had extensive surgery for bowel cancer.· Nineth five percent of large bowel cancers showing loss of heterozygosity for 17p alleles also contain a point mutation.
· Already, there are many treatments which destroy cancer cells.· Something about the ideology of the cancer cell, wasn't it?· Without blood, cancer cells starve.· With the infusion of resources into cancer research came an explosion in our ability to understand and manipulate the cancer cell.· One of them is the drug that kills cancer cells.· Neoprobe, a biotechnology company, has developed a technology that makes it easier for surgeons to target only cancer cells.· This will kill of the cancer cells but it will also kill off anything else in the vicinity.· The virus proved highly selective in killing several lines of human cancer cells in laboratory cell cultures.
· These subjects had an examination for evaluation of occult blood, positive stools or for screening for colon cancer, or both.· Decreases your risk of colon cancer. 6.· There is currently no satisfactory means of preventing proximal colon cancer in the general population.· Then they studied blood and tissue samples from 211 Ashkenazim who had been colon cancer patients.· The possibility of introducing anti-oncogenes into those with a predisposition to colon cancer is undoubtedly one of the most exciting prospects.· For patients with a family history of colon cancer, one in three carried the mutated gene.· Nor do we yet have evidence that removal of proximal adenomas prevents proximal colon cancer.· In the bed was a sixty-seven-year-old man with a severe colon cancer.
· Cigarette smoking causes a third of all cancer deaths.· After three decades of promotion, the Pap test is largely the reason why cervical cancer deaths have dropped sharply.· Lung cancer accounts for 15 percent of female cancer deaths.· Those taking beta-carotene had 13 percent fewer cancer deaths and 9 percent fewer deaths overall.· Also of note are the cancer deaths among young adults in the districts of Copeland, Barrow and South Lakeland.· For older men it accounts for between 20 - 40 percent of cancer deaths.· A comparison of observed young cancer deaths in Copeland with expected deaths shows even greater elevation in the years 1974 to 1980.· Lung cancer deaths have halved since 1965, mainly due to a reduction in the number of people who smoke.
· Ivester, 50, had been considered heir apparent to replace Goizueta, who died Saturday from complications related to lung cancer.· At least 90% of lung cancers are due to smoking.· She died of lung cancer, a result of a three-decade smoking addiction.· It is directly responsible for 35,000 deaths from lung cancer and twice this number from other diseases every year.· There was no evidence in these miners that a radon-rich atmosphere increased the risk of any cancer other than lung cancer.· Eventually the chances of developing lung cancer and other diseases will also be lessened, until they are the same as for non-smokers.· A radon-related excess of lung cancer is well established.
· However, some organisations have developed special diets which they suggest will help cancer patients.· It is, however, not effective with cancer patients.· It was bizarre, surrealistic, a little enclave of cancer patients in a noisy, crowded bar.· Not all cancer patients prefer to continue working while undergoing treatment.· Trials have been encouraging, with a 30-35 percent remission rate in over 200 ovarian cancer patients.· Then they studied blood and tissue samples from 211 Ashkenazim who had been colon cancer patients.· About 1,000 operations had been postponed and even cancer patients were being delayed.· Dedicated nineteenth-century physicians working with cancer patients had none of the sophisticated instruments and devices we have today.
· Without this help cancer research would dry up and the same statistics would be facing us fifty years from now.· More than 10 million of our family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers are alive today because of cancer research.· So without doubt one of the most important and difficult problems in cancer research is that of identifying the other mutations.· With the infusion of resources into cancer research came an explosion in our ability to understand and manipulate the cancer cell.· They made a national profit of £7.2 million, of which more than 90p in every pound goes to cancer research.· These experts bring to the audience the latest in everything from cancer research to the designer disease of the year.· The laboratories supported by the various cancer research agencies have, of course, made many valuable discoveries.· The continued effort in cancer research seems worthwhile considering the suffering that patients must endure.
· No danger here.Nuclear workers told cancer risk isn't worth the worry.· There are a few things already known about ovarian cancer risk.· Highly selective vagotomy was introduced about 20 years ago and hence any cancer risk should become apparent in the next few years.· This suggests that such indices are unlikely to provide useful markers for the identification of colorectal cancer risk as previously proposed.· A case reports and clinical-epidemiological studies have evaluated the cancer risk in patients who have abused anthranoid laxatives over a long period.· Mr William K. Reilly, the agency's administrator, said the immediate cancer risk to children from fungicide residues was negligible.
· Most skin cancers are completely curable, but some can be fatal.· One type of skin cancer is malignant melanoma.· Mr Smith was a rambunctious retiree who lost his nose to an untended skin cancer.· Ron Brassington's wife developed skin cancer but survived.· They help deplete the ozone layer, allowing ultraviolet rays to cause deadly skin cancers.· The number of skin cancer cases in Britain has doubled in 10 years, with the South West as the worst area.· Other types of skin cancer are associated with continued exposure to the sun over a long period.
· They have also been linked inconclusively with stomach cancer.· The researchers used a cancer registry and found that 419 were diagnosed with stomach cancer by 1992.· Last year he buried his wife after she died from stomach cancer.· An old man named Captain Stephenson is dying of stomach cancer in a Bay Area hospital.· Abdominal symptoms brought her to a medical examination, at which a stomach cancer with metastases was diagnosed.
· The idea was to talk to survivors of life's hardships, from concentration camp victims to cancer sufferers.· Karen Hurst helped a 10-year-old a cancer sufferer back to health by donating life-giving marrow last year.· If successful it will mean gentler treatments for cancer sufferers as many drugs currently in use have toxic side effects.· Do I really not want to be well? the cancer sufferer asks herself.· John Head, from Huntley in the Forest of Dean, is a cancer sufferer and recognises the need for urgent help.· John Head says it is vital the money is found to help other cancer sufferers.· If that's the case, there's hope for other cancer sufferers.
· It was the only chemical from all those which showed any potential for cancer treatment.· Lehman was at Dana-Farber for cancer treatment when she died suddenly on Dec. 3, 1994.· Discrimination against elderly people, however, appears to be a general feature of cancer treatment.· The network focuses on a single application: networking powerful computers to help doctors plan radiation therapy for cancer treatment.· Many genotoxic cancer treatments may also exert their effect through the enhanced induction of apoptosis.· Brawley of the National Cancer Institute said recent data counter the widespread assumption that blacks are underrepresented in cancer treatment trials.· It could revolutionise cancer treatment worldwide.· Taxol has been heralded as a breakthrough in cancer treatment.
· Margarita Georgiou brought her wedding day forward after cancer victim Nick was told by doctors he didn't have long to live.· Among the seven brave children was blind cancer victim Nicholas Killen.· But the cancer victim insisted he was well treated.· Ronald Joyce recalls Lenny helping raise £2,000 for a dying cancer victim.· Five-year-old cancer victim Belinda Giles was rushed in by her parents, Gill and Paul, when her temperature soared.· Charles showed great loyalty to his cancer victim wife Jill Ireland and deserves a new start.
VERB· The residues accumulate in our bodies and can cause cancer and birth defects.· Some of the chemicals cause cancer, some sterility.· Two were abandoned in the mid-1980s when they were discovered to cause cancer in rats.· They had received little training on the job, and had not been plainly told that plutonium caused cancer.· These proto-oncogenes can apparently cause cancer when something happens to disrupt their normal activities.· Once in the body it usually concentrated in the bones, often causing cancer.· The specific carcinogens, however, that cause the colorectal cancers in humans remain unknown.
· Between 1982 and 1992 the cost of treating a detected cancer quadrupled.· Thompson said the Pap smear only detects cervical cancer; it does not detect ovarian cancer or endometrial cancer.· Colonoscopic surveillance in colitis should reduce cancer related death compared with routine clinical care, by detecting early curable cancer.· There is not yet a single simple method of detecting cancer, yet this would be invaluable.· Pap smears and pelvic examinations every three years for women to detect cervical cancer.
· A typical example is the tendency to blame yourself for instance, for smoking for many years before developing lung cancer.· He developed cancer, and despite radium treatment - after which all his hair fell out - he was declared terminally ill.· None of the offspring in this study developed cancer.· Specialist medical evidence in the case showed that he had developed lung cancer as a result of active and passive smoking.· Amaro developed prostate cancer nine years ago and had surgery to remove it.· There was a risk that he could develop mesothelioma or lung cancer.· Belli developed pancreatic cancer three weeks after the marriage and died earlier this month.
· He was 77 and had been diagnosed with colon cancer last November.· Just before she flew to nationals, she learned that her father, Gene, had been diagnosed with bladder cancer.· A typical example is Victoria Kagi, who was diagnosed with bone cancer.· Researchers said the discovery could provide a new way for doctors to diagnose the severity of cancer cases.· Eighteen months ago Lynda Murray was diagnosed as having cancer and given just six months to live.· Bobbi Olson was first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring of 1997.· Hamilton, 39, was diagnosed with testicular cancer in March.· The 60-year-old retired engineer was diagnosed with prostate cancer in January.
· Pickle was first - tan and white terrier, died of cancer at eight.· Battles over the monetary and literary estate of the Fresno author began as soon as he died of cancer at age 72.· She died of cancer at the age of 48, when her suppressed anger and resentment emerged as multiple tumours.· She died of cancer just a few days after Samuel George was born.· Atwater died of brain cancer in 1991.· The human psyche is so pathetically insecure that we would rather die of lung cancer than confront an uncomfortable situation.· A tragedy is when you go to all these hospitals and see little children dying of cancer.
· I had said goodbye to him for the last time; he was dying of cancer.· An old man named Captain Stephenson is dying of stomach cancer in a Bay Area hospital.· The waiflike wife, holding his hand, was dying of cancer too.· A tragedy is when you go to all these hospitals and see little children dying of cancer.· The subject was the courageous crusade of a Somerset doctor, Geoffrey Taylor, who was dying of cancer.· Soon she was dying of cancer, in good South Chicago style.
· Integration of the viral genes Nevertheless, some viruses that lack known cancer genes have also been found to induce cancer.· He found out about the cancer not long after you were kidnaped.· The next morning he awoke to find the cancer had vanished.· John Head says it is vital the money is found to help other cancer sufferers.· They found that she had cancer in her lungs and kidneys.· During these years, Myra was found to have cancer.· Killing Newley still seemed desirable, if far-fetched, like becoming a millionaire or finding a cure for cancer.
· The fashion show was founded by Daniel and university friends to support the fellowship and help a local cancer charity.· Karen Hurst helped a 10-year-old a cancer sufferer back to health by donating life-giving marrow last year.· However, some organisations have developed special diets which they suggest will help cancer patients.· And I'd gladly wave goodbye to the odd beagle if it would help cure cancer.· John Head says it is vital the money is found to help other cancer sufferers.
· Hypothesis Power lines, cancer and cyclotron resonance Living close to overhead power lines may increase the risk of cancer in humans.· Those who inherit one gene have an increased chance of acquiring cancers later in life.· Was this a result of pollution and increased testicular cancer, which has doubled in the past 20 years?· The prospect of increasing the risk of cancer is frightening, but you must keep certain facts in mind.· It is speculated that this increases protection against gastric cancer.· Second, the animals given these substances are bred in a manner that probably increases their susceptibility to cancer.· Critics say that could lead to vitamin deficiencies or possible long-term effects on health such as increased incidence of cancer.
· The treaty is aimed at curtailing the use of 12 chemicals linked to cancer and birth defects.· They have also been linked inconclusively with stomach cancer.· And some of these have been linked with allergies and cancer.· Evidence linking vitamin antioxidants and cancer obtained from epidemiological studies is conflicting.· There are various ways in which fibre-depleted foods are now thought to be linked with cancer of the large bowel.· Smoking Smoking is linked both to lung cancer and coronary heart disease.· Cytogeneticists have long suspected that these chromosomal anomalies are linked with cancer, but only now has their message been deciphered.
· There is currently no satisfactory means of preventing proximal colon cancer in the general population.· The products are said to prevent cancer, but studies carried out by the Us National Cancer Institute repudiate these claims.· Nor do we yet have evidence that removal of proximal adenomas prevents proximal colon cancer.· Nothing can guarantee to prevent cancer, but there is some standard advice for reducing the risk.· Both types of cancer are now subject to national screening programmes as early detection may prevent these cancers being fatal.· Paclitaxel prevents cancer cells by binding to cell components called microtubules.
· As a 17-year-old, Daniel was diagnosed as suffering from testicular cancer and was treated at the Royal Marsden.· Mitterrand had been suffering from prostate cancer for several years, for which he underwent surgery twice.· Many more will have suffered from cancers brought on by one of the radioactive substances released.· But he said that reports that Graham suffers from prostate cancer are untrue.· Previously chemotherapy was most commonly used to treat men suffering from testicular cancer.· Mr Mitterrand, who had suffered from prostate cancer, spent his last days in his study near the Eiffel Tower.· Yesterday an inquest was told Mr Coulson was suffering from cancer of the lung and heart disease.· A cousin suffers from bone cancer.
· The technique is as for treating oesophageal cancers and has been published previously.· Her husband was in the hospital being treated for cancer.· Between 1982 and 1992 the cost of treating a detected cancer quadrupled.· Mobutu, who has been treated for cancer, did not enter the capital.· He has claimed success with every kind of tumour that he has treated - including lung cancer at a late stage.· However, progress in treating cancer has not been great enough to lower the death rate in the face of increased incidence.· Ten patients had been treated for prostate cancer and one had experienced a spinal cord injury.
A lot of cancers can now be treated successfully.lung/breast/stomach etc cancer Smoking causes lung cancer. She was told last year that she had cancer. He died of cancer last month.cancer of cancer of the womb a new treatment which effectively kills cancer cells2[countable] an evil influence that affects a lot of people and is difficult to stop: Drug abuse is the cancer of our society.—cancerous adjective: a cancerous growth cancerous cells