Collocations withcancer
These are words often used in combination withcancer.
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advanced cancer
Complexity in caring for patients with advanced cancer.
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bladder cancer
However, it is uncertain how large a percentage of the patients with early bladder cancer received such treatment.
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bone cancer
The cause was bone cancer.
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bowel cancer
The research estimated that bowel cancer costs almost £1.1billion per annum to manage.
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brain cancer
A community group has counted 18 children with brain cancer and 3 children with brain cysts since 1996.
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cancer cell
They then tested this result in vivo by transplanting poorly invasive breast cancer cell lines into the cleared mammary fat pad of immune-deficient mice.
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cancer centre
The clinical oncologists and cancer centre management welcomed the results.
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cancer patient
Tailoring adjuvant treatments for the individual breast cancer patient.
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cancer prevention
It is also considered a useful adjunct to all other treatments as part of skin cancer prevention.
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cancer registry
Among these are improvements in quality assurance, enhancing communication between the ambulatory and hospital sectors, and organizing a nationwide cancer registry.
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cancer research
What had been cancer research, now turned into cytomorphology.
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cancer screening
It contains recommendations for physicians concerning cancer screening, and especially breast cancer screening.
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cancer specialist
My child died three days after her sixth birthday of leukaemia, caused, a cancer specialist felt certain, by radiation.
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cancer survivor
As many of you must surely know, the spouse of a cancer survivor often carries a heavier burden than even the survivor him- or herself.
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cervical cancer
Time costs associated with cervical cancer screening.
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childhood cancer
To illustrate, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer, can be cured with chemotherapy that includes the drug mercaptopurine.
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colon cancer
Which colon cancer screening test?
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colorectal cancer
Weakening link to colorectal cancer?
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endometrial cancer
The increased risk of endometrial cancer is eliminated by the addition of a progestin (39;41).
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form of cancer
There are no confirmed findings demonstrating the protective effects of high consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables against this form of cancer.
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gastric cancer
This further complicates diagnosis and prognosis for gastric cancer patients.
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human cancer
Knocking down gene expression for growth hormone-releasing hormone inhibits proliferation of human cancer cell lines.
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invasive cancer
Moreover, not all of the "missed" positive smears would eventually have progressed to invasive cancer.
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laryngeal cancer
He contracted laryngeal cancer aged 32 and underwent a laryngectomy.
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liver cancer
The discrepancy between incidence and death data in the registry may be due to differences in certification practice, which systematically omit some deaths from liver cancer.
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lung cancer
Quality-of-life f ollowing thoracotomy for lung cancer.
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metastatic cancer
Her metastatic cancer originated in her breast.
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oesophageal cancer
It quickly became apparent that a considerable amount of background knowledge underlies the oesophageal cancer network.
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oral cancer
Dentists can spot the early signs of oral cancer.
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ovarian cancer
Her ovarian cancer recurred and spread quickly.
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pancreatic cancer
The effects are least apparent in pancreatic cancer.
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prostate cancer
Treating prostate cancer with brachytherapy.
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rectal cancer
The other project is expected to change primary treatment of rectal cancer patients by routinely scanning the liver.
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skin cancer
The role of light in the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer using methyl aminolevulinate.
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stomach cancer
Take, for example, the 56-year-old mother of a 31-year-old writer who died of stomach cancer.
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terminal cancer
He is suffering from terminal cancer.
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testicular cancer
Testicular cancer is almost always curable if found early.
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throat cancer
A year later, her husband contracted throat cancer.
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thyroid cancer
Thus, the mechanism of iodide retention in differentiated thyroid cancer remains unclear.
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uterine cancer
A major adverse effect of tamoxifen is uterine cancer; raloxifene caused fewer cases of uterine cancer.
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