How to Use carcinoma in a Sentence

carcinoma

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  • The rate of carcinomas was also higher in the male rats fed the dye (7.5 percent vs 1.5 percent).
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 11 Oct. 2023
  • His wife, Lovell Woods Gamble, said the cause was ameloblastic carcinoma, a rare tumor in the jaw.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
  • That little patch turned out to be a basal cell carcinoma, the most common type of skin cancer.
    — Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Having a basal cell carcinoma may not seem all that scary.
    — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 2 July 2018
  • The cause was adenoid cystic carcinoma, a form of cancer, said a son, Chris Mitchell.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • In August, the Seneca Park Zoo shared that the animal had a squamous cell carcinoma growth on her jaw.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Basal cell carcinoma is the most curable form of skin cancer.
    — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Serous carcinomas are the most common kind, according to the ACS.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Basal cell carcinoma is the most common type of skin cancer, but also the most curable form.
    — CBS News, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The most severe cause involves basal cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 24 July 2024
  • Basal cell carcinoma is so common there aren’t good counts.
    — Darlene Superville, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Adenoid cystic carcinoma is most commonly found in the salivary glands of the head and neck.
    — Samantha Bresnahan, CNN, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Whereas melanoma looks like a dark mole with jagged edges, Merkel cell carcinoma presents like a pimple, Chesney said.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 7 Sep. 2023
  • He’d been diagnosed four years ago with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare form of skin cancer.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas are the most common types of skin cancers, Chesney said.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 7 Sep. 2023
  • As far as cancer treatments go, treating a basal cell carcinoma is a cinch.
    — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 2 July 2018
  • News broke in March of this year that Cardwell had been diagnosed with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma in her liver, kidney, and lung.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Keri Lynn Noble was first diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma — a type of skin cancer — in 2016.
    — Fox News, 25 July 2019
  • Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare form of skin cancer that develops just beneath the skin and in hair follicles.
    — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ, a common type of breast cancer, is one such disease.
    — David Ropeik, STAT, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Squamous cell lung carcinoma: A type that mainly affects the airways and accounts for 25% and 30% of all cases.
    — Sanja Jelic, Verywell Health, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Testing confirmed the lesion was basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Just how this virus causes Merkel cell carcinoma has yet to be determined.
    — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The cause was metastatic squamous cell carcinoma, his wife, Lisa Harrow, said.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • Yet for almost 15 years, she’s been dealing with an onslaught of basal cell carcinomas (BCC)—the most common type of skin cancer—and even some melanomas, which are more rare.
    — Amy Norton, SELF, 22 July 2024
  • Hay was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma in 2005, a form of skin cancer that is now covered under the Zadroga Act.
    — Holly Hays, Indianapolis Star, 11 Sep. 2016
  • In another case, a patient with small cell carcinoma died after the patient was treated for the wrong type of cancer.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • But in March, he was diagnosed again, this time after doctors found a tumor linked to a rare form of skin cancer known as Merkel cell carcinoma.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Anna had been diagnosed with stage 4 adrenal carcinoma last year and died months later.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The risk was cut by more than half for gallbladder cancer, meningioma, pancreatic cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma, a kind of liver cancer.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 5 July 2024

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