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noun: cancer
1. the disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body.
"he's got cancer"
2. a malignant growth or tumor resulting from the division of abnormal cells.
plural noun: cancers
"most skin cancers are curable"
synonyms: malignant growth, cancerous growth, tumor, malignancy; technical carcinoma, sarcoma, melanoma, lymphoma, myeloma
"most skin cancers are curable if detected early"
3. a practice or phenomenon perceived to be evil or destructive and hard to contain or eradicate.
"racism is a cancer sweeping across Europe"
synonyms: evil, blight, scourge, poison, canker, plague; archaic pestilence
"the cancer of slavery spread across the continent"
