cancerous
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About 5% to 10% of polyps, which most people will have at some point in their lives, become cancerous, according to Pasricha.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026
But they went back in to see and it was a cancerous tumor.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2026
After the removal of a cancerous salivary gland tumor, Wing’s oncologist recommended chemotherapy and radiation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
"They can't actually tell if its cancerous until they get inside you," he said.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
He published a paper suggesting that perhaps “transformed” cells behaved the same not because they’d become cancerous, but because they’d been contaminated by something—most likely a virus or bacterium—that made them behave similarly.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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