How to Use malignancy in a Sentence

malignancy

noun

• The test revealed a malignancy in the patient's chest.
• The ideal dose is too weak to harm patients but strong enough to beat up a malignancy.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 1 Aug. 2005
• Cells from her malignancy were cultured and used to start a cell line, called HeLa, which lives on to this day in research labs around the world.
  — Grace Halden, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2015
• What is the terminal point of a malignancy that is present within the very core of a person?
  — Sarah-Tai Black, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• The biopsy revealed that the tumor was a stage II malignancy.
  — Kai McGee, Marie Claire, 5 Oct. 2020
• Prostate cancer is still one of the most prevalent malignancies.
  — Marc B. Garnick, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
• There are four types of surgery commonly used based on the size, location, and extent of the malignancy.
  — Sanja Jelic, Verywell Health, 22 Sep. 2023
• The Sacklers didn’t have to be the poster children of corporate malignancy.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• Esophageal cancer has one of the poorest survival rates of any malignancy.
  — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2021
• That growth can in turn increase the risk of malignancy — thyroid cancer.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2021
• Lung cancer — the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. — is another tricky malignancy to find.
  — Claire Altschuler, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
• The treatments managed to control the malignancy but not cure it, and life became a matter of coping.
  — Bruce Berger, WSJ, 12 July 2019
• The deaths were not caused by breast cancer, the agency said, but by a rare malignancy in the immune system, anaplastic large-cell lymphoma.
  — Denise Grady, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2017
• As time went on, more and more people came from that area with instances of malignancy, rather than Troy or Latham or other towns.
  — Ian Frisch, Longreads, 16 Apr. 2018
• Colorectal cancer refers to malignancies in the colon or rectum, which are parts of the large intestine.
  — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 28 Feb. 2017
• Imaging revealed the tumor had not been removed, nor had a metal clip placed at the site of the biopsy to help identify the location of the malignancy.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 28 June 2022
• Non-Hodgkin lymphomas, which account for about 4% of all cancers in the United States, are malignancies that begin in certain cells of the immune system.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
• Then there are the more than half-million patients like Santos, who has a malignancy of the blood or lymph nodes that cripples a vital line of defense against infection.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2022
• They are used to treat a wide range of advanced malignancies, including melanomas and cancers of the lung, breast, colon, bladder, thyroid and endometrium.
  — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• The problem occurs in up to 20 percent of colon cancers and about 40 percent of endometrial malignancies - cancer in the lining of the uterus.
  — Laurie McGinley, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
• If she is not treated and her cancer gallops into a malignancy that kills her, that too might have happened even if she had been given the cancer drugs.
  — New York Times, 23 July 2022
• For McGrath, the malignancy formed a tumor on a joint near his upper jaw, directly behind the cheekbone.
  — Allie Gross, Detroit Free Press, 15 July 2017
• Today, 90 percent of children with the blood malignancy, called acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), are cured.
  — Marie McCullough, https://www.inquirer.com, 6 June 2019
• The strikes have shown there is another malignancy in the system that threatens the long-term health of what has been an extremely prosperous business.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy in men after skin cancer.
  — Laurie McGinley, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
• The new trend in cancer research is to view a tumor’s malignancy not as solely determined by the tumor’s damaged genome.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2017
• Among the risk factors for malignancy is age: Women younger than 20 and older than 35 are at elevated risk.
  — Sandra G. Boodman, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2017
• In the identity-politics world, however, the wound of slavery is not simply a malignancy to be healed.
  — Joshua Mitchell, National Review, 26 Oct. 2017
• That report also noted lesions thought to be signs of malignancy—possibly a cancer of the upper throat.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024
• At its most basic level, prostate cancer is a malignancy that occurs in the prostate gland, which produces fluid that mixes with sperm from the testicles to make semen.
  — Marc B. Garnick, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024