as in lump
an abnormal mass of tissue
the scan showed a small tumor in her abdomen
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Mustang Bio's pipeline focuses on CAR T therapies for hematologic malignancies and solid tumors, with ongoing collaborations with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and City of Hope.
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Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
Dense breasts have more tissue and less fat, which makes reading mammograms more difficult as tissue and possible tumors both appear white in results, according to the American Cancer Society.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Stopping oral contraceptives can sometimes shrink or heal the tumor.
—Robert Burakoff, Verywell Health, 1 Nov. 2024
Because of the sort of tumor her doctors suspected, the medical workup would require an injection of a chemical that would be deadly to the fetus.
—Essence, 31 Oct. 2024
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Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
Dense breasts have more tissue and less fat, which makes reading mammograms more difficult as tissue and possible tumors both appear white in results, according to the American Cancer Society.
—Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 1 Nov. 2024
Stopping oral contraceptives can sometimes shrink or heal the tumor.
—Robert Burakoff, Verywell Health, 1 Nov. 2024
Because of the sort of tumor her doctors suspected, the medical workup would require an injection of a chemical that would be deadly to the fetus.
—Essence, 31 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tumor
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Common symptoms are a persistent sore throat, earache, hoarseness, and a lump in the throat or neck.Sayaka Blickenderfer, Health, 21 Nov. 2024
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The second photograph contains a wet, bulbous, red lump held between two fingers and pierced by a needle guiding a black thread, possibly in reference to the stitching of the perineal tear after childbirth.Jenny Wu, ARTnews.com, 6 Nov. 2024
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Collectively known as myeloproliferative neoplasms, or MPNs, these rare blood cancers are, well, very rare.Brittany Risher, SELF, 30 July 2024
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The members taught me that a hematologist is a general blood doctor, not a specialist in my type of blood cancer (a category called myeloproliferative neoplasms, or MPN).Alice Oglethorpe, SELF, 16 July 2024
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For Nancy, the doctor called with good news — the lump is a cyst, not a tumor.Andy Swift, TVLine, 4 Nov. 2024
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When the conditions are right, these cysts can seed harmful blooms in surface waters.ByMegan Gannon, science.org, 16 July 2024
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The Arizona Republic documented the growth of farming towns into a massive metro area.Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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For the Michigan economy, the economists anticipate stronger growth in 2025 and 2026 as the potential federal tax cuts and additional Federal Reserve interest rate cuts act to boost growth.JC Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2024
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The company continues to focus on developing therapies for basal cell carcinoma nevus syndrome, prostate, and lung cancers using itraconazole.Quartz Bot, Quartz, 12 Nov. 2024
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Every tanning bed session increases your risk of skin cancer, Verywell Health says: Squamous cell carcinoma risks go up by more than 65 percent and basal cell carcinoma risk by 30 percent.Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2024
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“Tumor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tumor. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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