cancerous
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One of the most important discoveries concerns TET2, an enzyme that helps prevent cancerous growth by controlling whether particular genes are switched "on" or "off."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
News that the otherwise active pope had a cancerous tumour removed from his lung has rattled the Vatican and the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
Priests and parishioners in Pope Leo XIV's hometown of Chicago expressed shock, support and hope Wednesday after doctors discovered that a nodule removed from his lung was cancerous.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Nodules are quite common and not necessarily cancerous, but after it was examined the medical team confirmed it was, "as suspected by pre-operative tests", the Vatican said.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
We righted the tiers and replaced the cages; then we were faced with the impossible task of sorting the cancerous rats and mice, the diabetic dogs, the Aschheim-Zondek rabbits, and the Wassermann guinea pigs.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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