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In her blog, Greenwood explained that on September 12, 2024, she was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma — a type of breast cancer that originates in the milk ducts and spreads to the surrounding tissue — after a mass was discovered on her right breast.
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Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Autopsies can catch hereditary illnesses that doctors tend to miss, such as signet-ring-cell carcinomas, and reveal causes of dementia that may have been misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s.
—Samuel Ashworth, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2025
In some cases, metformin users saw a significantly lower risk of squamous cell carcinoma, but that reduction was not significant in African American patients.
—Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
For squamous cell carcinoma patients, though, the lines weren’t as clear.
—Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
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Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025
Autopsies can catch hereditary illnesses that doctors tend to miss, such as signet-ring-cell carcinomas, and reveal causes of dementia that may have been misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s.
—Samuel Ashworth, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2025
In some cases, metformin users saw a significantly lower risk of squamous cell carcinoma, but that reduction was not significant in African American patients.
—Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
For squamous cell carcinoma patients, though, the lines weren’t as clear.
—Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for carcinoma
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Liquid biopsies must detect cancer early, differentiate between malignancies and avoid the pitfalls of false positives and negatives.—
Mariya Filipova,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Giving performances unsparing in their pitifulness and malignancy, respectively, Robinson and Bennett guide viewers through the jaw-dropping, labyrinthine plot all the way to a haunting ending that contributed to the film being banned in a number of cities across the United States.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2025
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Basal and squamous cell carcinomas usually grow slowly, while melanoma grows quickly.—
Casey Gallagher,
Health,
15 Apr. 2025
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Over the past two years, Mellencamp has had 17 different spots of melanoma removed, and recently discovered the cancer had spread.—
Dave Quinn,
People.com,
10 Mar. 2025
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Full House star Dave Coulier, who was diagnosed with Stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma in October 2024, is now cancer-free.—
Vlada Gelman,
TVLine,
31 Mar. 2025
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Delaying the ban means that people will continue to be exposed to the chemical, which causes liver cancer, kidney cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, as well as holes in infants’ hearts that can be fatal.—
Sharon Lerner,
ProPublica,
26 Mar. 2025
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This is comparative to the cancer risk from alcohol use and being overweight, according to an April 14 news release from the university.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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Both diets can support heart health, lower cancer risk, and help prevent type 2 diabetes.—
Isabel Vasquez RD LDN,
Health,
18 Apr. 2025
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The polyp stage is a precursor to the medusa stage, Folino-Rorem said, when jellyfish are more visible.—
Maya Wilkins,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Feb. 2025
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In expansion, individual polyps deposit calcium carbonate beneath their bodies in a cuplike shape, which enlarges as the polyp grows.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
26 Feb. 2025
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“Carcinoma.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carcinoma. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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