cancer — OAT · Shobdo

cancer

noun

1 most skin cancers are curable:

malignant growth, cancerous growth, malignant tumor, tumor, malignancy, met;

technical carcinoma, sarcoma, melanoma, lymphoma, myeloma, neoplasm, metastasis, neurofibroma, teratoma, fibroadenoma, meningioma.

2 gambling is a cancer sweeping across the nation:

evil, blight, scourge, poison, canker, sickness, disease, pestilence, plague;

rot, corruption.

word links	cancer
carcin- related prefix carcinoma relating to cancer carcinogenic causing cancer carcinophobia fear of cancer oncology branch of medicine treating cancer