CANCER in a Sentence

Learn CANCER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

122 example sentences for CANCER, such as:

1. The cancer has spread to his stomach.
2. Smoking predisposes you to lung cancer.
3. Uncle Harry is terminally ill with cancer.
4. It was a very cancer for permanency and pain.
5. Mother died of cancer, brought on by fretting.

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 Meanings and Examples of CANCER
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cancer
 n.  (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Cancer
 n.  type genus of the family Cancridae
Classic Sentence:
1  Mother died of cancer, brought on by fretting.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
2  The care about money was like a great cancer, eating away the individuals of all classes.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
3  It was a very cancer for permanency and pain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  There was a woman with a cancer in her breast, swelled to a monstrous size, full of holes, in two or three of which I could have easily crept, and covered my whole body.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV.
5  More dangerous than the cancer that will certainly get me at fifty unless I stop this smoking.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  Canker was a disease of plants and cancer one of animals: or another different.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
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16  Persons dying from cancer grow thin and visibly waste away.
17  Prolonged exposure to the sun can cause skin cancer.
18  Smoking predisposes you to lung cancer.
19  Smokers face an increased risk of developing lung cancer.
20  The doctor concluded that the patient's disease was cancer.
21  Uncle Harry is terminally ill with cancer.
22  The cancer has spread to his stomach.
23  It's a well-known fact that smoking can cause lung cancer.
24  There is a direct correlation between exposure to sun and skin cancer.
25  Most of the women employees have now been screened for breast cancer.
26  With a look of horror, he asked if the doctor thought he had cancer.
27  Researchers have discovered that the children of these patients are genetically predisposed to cancer.
28  The medical community continues to make progress in the fight against cancer.
29  It is my belief that we will find a cure for cancer in the next ten years.
30  Scientists are claiming a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer.