lung cancer
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2.3
- noun
- /lʌŋ ˈkænsər/
- Specialized
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cáncer de pulmón
- The high mortality rate of lung cancer is primarily due to the symptomless development.
- risk of lung cancer
- smoking causes lung cancer
- cause lung cancer
So AI is diagnosing lung cancer, prostate cancer, Alzheimer's.
- So AI is diagnosing lung cancer, prostate cancer, Alzheimer's.
- A lot of young women seem to get lung cancer who didn't smoke.
- You in other words, you believe that smoking causes lung cancer, then?
- So nobody disputes that cigarettes are causally linked to lung cancer.
- I mean, I can tell you that smoking is bad for you, that it causes lung cancer.
- And that chemo led to brain cancer, sorry, led to lung cancer, which moved into her brain and killed her very quickly.
- You could never smoke and get lung cancer, but not smoking certainly reduces your chances of lung cancer greatly.
- Ella's dad was diagnosed with lung cancer, and it seems like.
- So breast cancer, prostate cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, etcetera.
- And as soon as he let go of that, the lung cancer disappeared.
- And it's just fucking crazy because your dad passes from lung cancer and then ribs gets lung cancer.
Examples
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By Friday, he's diagnosed with stage four small cell lung cancer.
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You could never smoke and get lung cancer, but not smoking certainly reduces your chances of lung cancer greatly.
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My Mom died of lung cancer.
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How about stage 4 lung cancer?
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Which means he had lung cancer.
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Diesel exhaust causes lung cancer.
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Postmortem revealed that he was suffering from lung cancer.
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The patients' survival rate can be significantly improved by detecting and treating lung cancer at its early stage.
Academic text (2017) -
Smokers are more likely to develop heart disease, stroke and lung cancer than non-smokers.
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My mother was diagnosed with lung cancer last year, which has significantly impacted our family.
Synonyms
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A serious disease in which body cells grow out of control and spread
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A cancer that starts in the skin or inner layer of organs
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Cancer cells that grow without control and can destroy nearby tissue
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5.0
A group of harmful cells that grow and spread in the body
A very serious cancer made of small round cells that grows and spreads quickly in the lungs
Antonyms
How Serious
- Specialized
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- Specialized
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'lung' (the organ) with 'cancer' (a disease of uncontrolled cell growth): it denotes cancer located in the lungs. This site-of-disease compound is a common, cross-linguistic compositional pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Lung cancer gets its name from the old use of cancer for a growth people thought looked like a 'crab', while lung shows where it is. Imagine a small 'crab' stuck in the soft lung, slowly growing and making breathing hard, and you can see why it means a serious, dangerous growth in the lungs.