cancer
/ˈkæn·sər/ n [C/U] (DISEASE)Definition
› a disease in which cells in the body grow without control, or a serious medical condition caused by this disease: [U] He died from cancer of the stomach. cancerous /ˈkæn·sər·əs/ adj › Surgeons removed a cancerous growth from her lung.
(Definition of cancer n (DISEASE) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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