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1. cancer
noun. ['ˈkænsɝ'] any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream.
Synonyms
Etymology
- cancer (Latin)
- καρκίνος (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
Rhymes with Cancer
- financer
- enhancer
- advancer
- prancer
- pancer
- mansur
- mansour
- manser
- lanser
- lancer
- ganser
- danser
- dancer
- answer
How do you pronounce cancer?
Pronounce cancer as ˈkænsər.
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Sentences with cancer
1. Noun, singular or mass
Too much time in the sun can burn your skin and cause skin cancer in the long term.
Quotes about cancer
1. The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.
- Gilda Radner
2. The most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.
- Jonathan Winters
3. My mother told me, 'Son, nobody else but God knows.' And that's what I'm about - reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That's what I do.
- Mr. T
2. Cancer
noun. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer.
Etymology
- cancer (Latin)
- καρκίνος (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
3. Cancer
noun. type genus of the family Cancridae.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Etymology
- cancer (Latin)
- καρκίνος (Ancient Greek (to 1453))