Cancer

/ˈkænsə/

Synonyms for "cancer" (58 found)

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Closest matches (12)

Proper Noun(1 words)
Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (17)

Noun(5 words)
crab signkrebsmalignanciesmalignancymalignant neoplastic disease

Related words (29)

Noun(3 words)

Related word relations

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More general

9 entries
actordiseasedoermalignant neoplasmmalignant tumormedical conditionmetastatic tumorworkerzodiac sign

More specific

6 entries

Collocations

6 entries
breast cancercancer mortalitycancer patientcancer researchcancer treatmentcolorectal cancer

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

20 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Tiny particles in the air can cause cancer.

Source: tatoeba (18227)

Smokers are far more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers are.

Source: tatoeba (19924)

Smoking has a great deal to do with cancer.

Source: tatoeba (19949)

It's foolish to think that smoking has little to do with cancer.

Source: tatoeba (19950)

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