Cancer

What do we mean by cancer?

Any of various malignant neoplasms characterized by the proliferation of anaplastic cells that tend to invade surrounding tissue and metastasize to new body sites. noun

The pathological condition characterized by such growths. noun

A pernicious, spreading evil. noun

To corrode or eat into, in the manner and with the steadily destructive persistency of a cancer.

capitalized NL. In zoology, the typical genus of brachyurous decapodous crustaceans of the family Cancridæ: formerly more than conterminous with the order Decapoda, now restricted to the common edible crab of Europe, C. pagurus, and its immediate congeners. See crab. noun

capitalized In astronomy, a constellation and also a sign of the zodiac, represented by the form of a crab, and showing the limits of the sun's course northward in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice (marked ♋). noun

In pathology, a malignant tumor technically named carcinoma (which see); also, by extension, any malignant tumor, as one of certain adenomata and sarcomata. noun

A plant, possibly cancerwort. noun

The term cancer, as commonly employed, includes those new growths which possess certain attributes that render them especially dangerous to life, and which are therefore called malignant. Malignant tumors growby infiltration and destruction of the surrounding tissues, and are characterized by a tendency to recur after removal, by the property of spreading to other parts of the body by a process of dissemination known as metastasis, and by producing a general disturbance of health termed cachexia. From the standpoint, of the pathologist two chief groups of cancerous tumors are recognized: the carcinomata, or true cancers, and the sarcomata. The fundamental difference between these two is the fact that carcinoma originates in the epithelial tissues of the body, whereas sarcoma develops from the connective tissues. This difference in origin gives rise to certain structural characteristics which enable the microscopist readily to distinguish one type from the other. Carcinoma is rare before the age of thirty; it is somewhat commoner in women than in men; and it is most often seen in the uterus, skin, breast, and stomach. Sarcoma is a disease of early adult life, is more prone to attack men than women, and is commonly found in the subcutaneous tissue, bony structures, and lymph-nodes. Carcinoma is conveyed from one part of the body to another through the lymphatic vessels, sarcoma by way of the blood-stream. In spite of an enormous amount of research devoted to this subject, the exciting cause of cancer is still unknown. The influences of heredity, climate, food, race, social condition, and local injury have all been invoked as factors concerned, but without arriving at any degree of certainty. The theory referring the developmentof malignant tumors to the presence of minute animal or vegetable organisms has numerous adherents, but it has not been definitely established, and many prominent authorities consider that the explanation is to be sought for in a disturbance of some still undiscovered fundamental law governing the growth of cells. Although it appears that cancer is increasing somewhat in frequency, the percentage of cures is increasing much more rapidly, owing to the earlier diagnoses and more thorough operations which are now possible. Extirpation by the knife as promptly and as completely as possible, when the growth is accessible, is regarded as the method of treatment that offers the greatest hope of a cure; but the employment of the X-rays or other form of radioactivity has in a number of instances given excellent results. noun

Figuratively, a moral or social evil likened to a cancer in its malignant character and corroding tendency: as, “sloth is a cancer,” noun

A genus of decapod Crustacea, including some of the most common shore crabs of Europe and North America, as the rock crab, Jonah crab, etc. See crab. noun

The fourth of the twelve signs of the zodiac. The first point is the northern limit of the sun's course in summer; hence, the sign of the summer solstice. See Tropic. noun

A northern constellation between Gemini and Leo. noun

Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework. noun

Cells once believed to be peculiar to cancers, but now know to be epithelial cells differing in no respect from those found elsewhere in the body, and distinguished only by peculiarity of location and grouping. noun

The name of several low plants, mostly parasitic on roots, as the beech drops, the squawroot, etc. noun

See Tropic. noun

A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation. noun

A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.

Something damaging that spreads throughout something else.

A disease lacking a sense of humor. Urban Dictionary

One disease to rule them all. Anything and everything causes cancer nowadays, which is somewhat depressing. There is no true cure for any form of cancer, but there just might be if the human race would stop warring with itself and concentrate on destroying diseases instead. Urban Dictionary

A disease caused by everything. Urban Dictionary

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4th Astrological sign for people born between June 22-July 21. Urban Dictionary

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Cancer is a disease where you loose hair and you may die but some people do live the most common is lung cancer which is normaly caused due to smoking Urban Dictionary

Cancer is so very limited Urban Dictionary

The fourth of the 12 zodiac signs, represented by the crab, running from June 23 to July 23. Urban Dictionary

Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the mass of these cells invade other tissues, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (in which cancer cells are transported through the blood or lymphatic system). There is a number of cures and mechninisims for cancer. these include; chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgey, steriods as well as many other experimental drugs. There are a wide number of chemotherapy drugs, there is not one chemotherapy to treat all cancers. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to cancer:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word cancer:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe cancer:
prostate, ovarian, cervical, advanced, colorectal, gastric, human, metastatic, pancreatic, endometrial, primary, small, invasive, early, rectal, breast, prostatic, oral, stomach, cell, recurrent, uterine, terminal, anti, renal, epithelial, laryngeal, mammary, squamous, inoperable, hereditary, stage, bladder, gastrointestinal, familial, operable, superficial, induced, refractory, medullary, oesophageal, vaginal, vulvar, anal, incurable, gynecologic, male, disseminated, colonic, intestinal, thyroid, differentiated, penile, non, fatal, unresectable, testicular, malignant, occult, nasopharyngeal, inflammatory, resectable, residual, untreated, systemic, papillary, occupational, rare, sporadic, hepatic, genital, bilateral, postmenopausal, esophageal, resistant, associated, contralateral, cervix, premenopausal, pelvic, aggressive, risk.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective cancer:
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Consonant match to cancer:
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