pancreatic cancer
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- noun
- /ˌpæŋkriˈætɪk ˈkænsər/
- Specialized
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cáncer de páncreas
- Many people are aware of the symptoms of pancreatic cancer, such as unexplained weight loss.
- diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
- inoperable pancreatic cancer
- battling pancreatic cancer
Well, Steve Jobs got pancreatic cancer and he tried to handle it organically.
- Well, Steve Jobs got pancreatic cancer and he tried to handle it organically.
- They just found out recently that he has pancreatic cancer.
- And there's one fungus that's been implicated in causing the accelerated growth of pancreatic cancer.
- And if you keep hyperinsulinemia long enough, high enough, it is going to greatly increase your risk of developing pancreatic cancer.
- He gets diagnosed with pancreatic, with pancreatic cancer.
- And the same true for pancreatic cancer, the same true for non-smoking lung cancer and many others.
- I, I told the story earlier this afternoon about my model when I had pancreatic cancer was the great meso soprano Marilyn Horn.
- There was a senator, I, I think it was after the pancreatic cancer, who announced with great Glee that I was going to be dead within six months.
- Well, now five years later had developed pancreatic cancer.
Examples
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She died about three years ago of pancreatic cancer.
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Robin's father had pancreatic cancer.
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My sister, three years ago, passed away with pancreatic cancer.
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"One Day at a Time" has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, her family said Monday.
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My father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in April 2010 and passed away on June 7th, 2011.
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Well, Steve Jobs got pancreatic cancer and he tried to handle it organically.
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She passed away from pancreatic cancer.
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You may be a candidate for the Whipple procedure, but-- well, it's pancreatic cancer.
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Bill Duckworth was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year ago last February.
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Sally Ride, the first U.S. female astronaut, died this year at 61 of pancreatic cancer.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase combines 'pancreatic' (pertaining to the pancreas) with 'cancer' (disease of uncontrolled cell division), so the meaning 'cancer of the pancreas' is directly and compositionally derivable from its parts. This kind of medical noun+modifier naming is cross-linguistically common, making it immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Pancreatic cancer comes from pancreas, the small organ that makes digestive juices and insulin, and cancer, meaning a harmful tumor. So it simply means 'a tumor in the pancreas'.