operable

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She is now back in chemotherapy and surgeons say her cancer is no longer operable.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

"These findings add to evidence that the perioperative immunotherapy path gives patients with operable lung cancer an opportunity to live longer without their cancer returning."

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

Editorials and articles have sparked a Washington State Ferries food fight over our lack of operable boats and strategies to solve that.

From Seattle Times • May 3, 2024

Up the stairs to the second floor, the main living area and kitchen measure just 13 feet wide; large windows and operable skylights add light and cross-ventilation throughout the linear floor plan.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023

Marley had written that line a year before his death, while an operable melanoma was, at that moment, metastasizing to his lungs, liver, stomach and brain.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover