Synonyms for cancer
ˈkæn sər; ˈkæŋ krican·cer

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1. cancernoun

   Synonyms:
   Cancerian

   Antonyms:
   Capricornus

2. Cancernoun

   A constellation of the zodiac supposedly shaped like a crab.

   Synonyms:
   malignancy, growth, neoplasia, Cancerian

   Antonyms:
   Capricornus

3. Cancernoun

   Antonyms:
   Capricornus

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. cancer, malignant neoplastic diseasenoun

   any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream

   Synonyms:
   malignant neoplastic disease, genus Cancer

2. Cancer, Crabnoun

   (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer

   Synonyms:
   crab louse, malignant neoplastic disease, crabby person, crabmeat, genus Cancer, pubic louse

3. Cancernoun

   a small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Leo and Gemini

   Synonyms:
   malignant neoplastic disease, genus Cancer

4. Cancer, Cancer the Crab, Crabnoun

   the fourth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about June 21 to July 22

   Synonyms:
   crab louse, malignant neoplastic disease, crabby person, crabmeat, genus Cancer, pubic louse

5. Cancer, genus Cancernoun

   type genus of the family Cancridae

   Synonyms:
   malignant neoplastic disease, genus Cancer

Matched Categories

1. • Arthropod Genus
   • Astrology
   • Constellation
   • Person
   • Sign
   • Zodiac

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cancernoun

   Synonyms:
   carcinoma, carcinosis

   Associated words:
   cancerate, canceration, cancerous, cancriform, cancroid, solanoid

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "cancer":

   cancers, krebs, rak, anticancer, oncology, carcinoma, tumor

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cancer

   Synonyms:
   Cancer and malignancy are used interchangeably; cancer is somewhat colloquial; malignancy is relatively formal
   

2. cancer

   Synonyms:
   Malignancy

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1. Erica Mayer:

   It's known that pregnancy at a younger age may confer some long-term protective benefits against breast cancer, however it's also been recognized that in the immediate years following a pregnancy, there seems to be an increased risk of breast cancer that slowly resolves with time, the findings in this paper support and confirm the prior observations.

2. Kayla Nicklow:

   [The act] meant a lot to us because with Cooper just being 3 and having a rare kind of cancer, it’s nice to see all the support that we have been getting from Morgan and the family.

3. David Sinclair:

   We started making that mouse when I was 39 years old. I’m now 53, and we’ve been studying that mouse ever since, if the theory of information aging was wrong, then we would get either a dead mouse, a normal mouse, an aging mouse or a mouse that had cancer. We got aging.

4. Burhan Chowdhury:

   I am a cancer person, i was then very weak… I cannot look after these things.

5. John Stoll:

   No more cancer, he went through six years.