Cancer Synonyms and Antonyms

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The fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. carcinoma
  2. sarcoma
  3. disease
  4. malignancy
  5. crab
  6. tumor
  7. growth
  8. metastasis
  9. carcinogen
  10. carcinosis
  11. Cancer the Crab
  12. chemotherapy
  13. corruption
  14. melanoma
  15. radiation
  16. sickness
Malignancy
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. malignant neoplastic disease
  2. genus Cancer
Antonyms:
  1. benignity
  2. benignancy
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. benign
  2. cancerous
  3. cancroid
  4. carcinogenic
  5. carcinomatous
  6. malignant
  7. sarcomatous
  8. terminal

Words Related to Cancer

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. breast-cancer
  2. leukaemia
  3. prostate cancer
  4. cancer-x94
  5. diabetes
  6. lung-cancer
  7. lupus
  8. arthritis
  9. osteoporosis
  10. prostate
  11. skin-cancer
  12. cancer-xe2-x80-x9d

Cancer Sentence Examples

  • Cancer of the Stomach is a common disease.

  • Its favourite situation is the outlet (pyloric cancer), where a hard, fibrous growth forms a contracting ring of the scirrhous variety.

  • The very high summer temperatures of the area north of the tropic of Cancer are sufficiently accounted for, when compared with those observed south of the tropic, by the increased length of the day in the higher latitude, which more than compensates for the loss of heat due to the smaller mid-day altitude of the sun.

  • The symptoms of cancer of the stomach are apt to be indefinite (for many weeks or months).

  • These are sometimes erroneously spoken of as the "roots" of cancer, and in the case of cancer of the stomach they may fix it to the pancreas, the liver, the bowels or the spine.

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