Cancerology

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The scientific study of cancer. dated, uncountable

    "It is at one and the same time a centre of research and a benevolent undertaking. Furthermore, it would tend to give concretion to a group of medical studies which might be brought under the heading of “Cancerology,” or, to be more comprehensive and scientific, of “Oncology.”"

Example

More examples

"It is at one and the same time a centre of research and a benevolent undertaking. Furthermore, it would tend to give concretion to a group of medical studies which might be brought under the heading of “Cancerology,” or, to be more comprehensive and scientific, of “Oncology.”"

Etymology

From cancer + -ology.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.