How to Use neuroblastoma in a Sentence
neuroblastoma
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At the age of 4, she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a nerve tumor of the spinal cord and brain.
—Daniel Brown, The Denver Post, 14 Apr. 2017
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At age of 4, she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a nerve tumor of the spinal cord and brain.
—Daniel Brown, Orange County Register, 14 Apr. 2017
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The little boy battled neuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer, and dreamed of one day joining the Army.
—Aj Willingham, CNN, 29 June 2019
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The boy died in 2011 after a nine-month battle with neuroblastoma, just a few days short of his fourth birthday.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 12 May 2023
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There was a large tumor on his kidney called a neuroblastoma.
—Tom Corwin, ajc, 26 Sep. 2021
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At nine months of age, he had been diagnosed with neuroblastoma and undergone eight rounds of chemo.
—Alan Burdick, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2017
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Franklin saw another diagnosis, a neuroblastoma in a two-year-old child, in just the last few weeks.
—Sarah Bowman, Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2019
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Mutated forms of the gene and protein have been found in non-small cell lung cancer, anaplastic large cell lymphoma and neuroblastoma, a brain cancer.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 May 2020
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Leah was 4 years old when she was diagnosed with neuroblastoma and given a 50 percent chance of survival.
—NBC News, 8 Jan. 2019
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Alexandra 'Alex' Scott was diagnosed with a neuroblastoma, a form of childhood cancer, at one year old.
—Dennis Hohenberger, Courant Community, 23 May 2017
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Liam was just 2-and-a-half years old when he was diagnosed with stage IV neuroblastoma, and after a year battling the disease, doctors had declared him cancer free.
—Michelle Boudin, PEOPLE.com, 11 Jan. 2018
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The younger Herbert is suffering from Stage 4 neuroblastoma, one of the most common types of pediatric cancer.
—C. Trent Rosecrans, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2017
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The neurons came from a cell line that was originally cultured from a cancer called neuroblastoma.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 20 July 2022
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The little girl, above with a pink cowboy hat on, reportedly has stage IV neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer.
—Meredith Bodgas, Woman's Day, 17 Sep. 2014
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The pair have since developed a drug that fights against neuroblastoma and other cancers and goes into clinical trial this spring.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 21 Sep. 2019
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Shashank Sirsi talked to her about his research studying neuroblastoma in children.
—Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
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Shim, 42, was diagnosed with a neuroblastoma cancer, which attached to his spine shortly after he was born.
—Nathan Percy, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2017
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Jessica was diagnosed with stage four neuroblastoma, a cancer most commonly found in the adrenal glands that occurs in young children, just over a year ago.
—Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 22 Nov. 2016
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Alex has been fighting Stage 4 high-risk neuroblastoma since being diagnosed at age 4.
—Jenna West, SI.com, 13 June 2018
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Jaxen, who has autism and is nonverbal, was diagnosed with stage 4 neuroblastoma just a few days before his third birthday.
—Mallory Hughes, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
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Edna was diagnosed with a neuroblastoma tumor on her back as an infant; as such, the idea of having fun in a wheelchair also felt somewhat distant at first.
—De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 27 Sep. 2018
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That’s because four months after their son, JD, was born in February 2020, he was diagnosed with neuroblastoma.
—Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
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Payne met the 8-year-old, who was battling neuroblastoma, on a team visit to a local hospital several years earlier and struck up a friendship.
—Mark Osborne, ABC News, 9 May 2022
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Walter had undergone more than two years of treatment for neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer.
—Dave Clark, Cincinnati.com, 6 Oct. 2017
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At age 2, Eileidh was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a childhood cancer that forms in nerve tissues.
—Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 27 June 2017
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That June, Still announced that his four-year-old daughter, Leah, had been diagnosed with an extremely advanced form of cancer called neuroblastoma.
—Tim Hackett, SI.com, 20 Apr. 2018
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Read during the ceremony was a story written by Eileidh's mother Gail, based on the 5-year-old's battle with neuroblastoma.
—Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 27 June 2017
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Diagnosed with neuroblastoma in February 2017, more testing showed that the disease had spread to her liver and throughout her skeleton.
—Caitlin Keating, PEOPLE.com, 2 Mar. 2018
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But to verify the diagnosis, an MRI was scheduled and a urine sample taken — a screening test, Sirsi knew, for neuroblastoma.
—Dallas News, 11 Apr. 2022
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After multiple surgeries in the first few months of her life, Till was diagnosed at 16 months with neuroblastoma, a form of cancer that affects the central nervous system in infants and young children.
—Evan Dudley, al, 18 Oct. 2019
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