cancer
/ˈkænsər/ noun [C, U]Definition
› a serious disease that is caused when cells in the body grow in a way that is uncontrolled and not normal: breast/lung cancer His wife died of cancer.
cancerous adjective › a cancerous growth(Definition of cancer noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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