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Recent Examples of polyp
The polyps have a high likelihood of becoming colon cancer by the time these patients reach their mid to late 40s, but the screening rate is the lowest among people in this age group.
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Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2025
In expansion, individual polyps deposit calcium carbonate beneath their bodies in a cuplike shape, which enlarges as the polyp grows.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025
By the time Ricciardi finally volunteered himself for the procedure two years later (concerned about the blood that kept dribbling out of his ass), the polyps that a doctor might have found during an earlier examination had grown into a fist-sized mass and metastasized throughout his liver.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
Chronic rhinosinusitis and asthma often occur together, especially in people with nasal polyps.
—Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Mar. 2025
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Team Verywell Health, Verywell Health, 13 Mar. 2025
In expansion, individual polyps deposit calcium carbonate beneath their bodies in a cuplike shape, which enlarges as the polyp grows.
—Quanta Magazine, 26 Feb. 2025
By the time Ricciardi finally volunteered himself for the procedure two years later (concerned about the blood that kept dribbling out of his ass), the polyps that a doctor might have found during an earlier examination had grown into a fist-sized mass and metastasized throughout his liver.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2025
Chronic rhinosinusitis and asthma often occur together, especially in people with nasal polyps.
—Lindsay Curtis, Health, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polyp
Noun
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He was diagnosed in early 2023 at Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital in Palos Park with an aggressive form of bladder cancer known as muscle-invasive high-grade urothelial carcinoma after noticing blood in his urine.—
Melinda Moore,
Chicago Tribune,
23 Mar. 2025
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In her blog, Greenwood explained that on September 12, 2024, she was diagnosed with invasive ductal carcinoma — a type of breast cancer that originates in the milk ducts and spreads to the surrounding tissue — after a mass was discovered on her right breast.—
Vanessa Etienne,
People.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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Liquid biopsies must detect cancer early, differentiate between malignancies and avoid the pitfalls of false positives and negatives.—
Mariya Filipova,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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Just as with labels on cigarettes, America's top doctor is calling for cancer risk warnings on alcohol after a report cites studies linking alcoholic beverages to more than a half-dozen malignancies, including breast cancer.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
3 Jan. 2025
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Like Monaghan, who was diagnosed with melanoma in 2007, White is also an advocate for skin health.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
17 Mar. 2025
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In a landmark trial published in 2021, oncologists at several cancer centers across the U.S. and in Israel gave fecal transplants to 10 patients with metastatic melanoma to try and improve their responses to PD-1 inhibitors.—
David Cox,
NBC News,
14 Mar. 2025
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The 65-year-old was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma last year.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
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Comments Nearly five months after revealing that he had been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Dave Coulier is cancer-free.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Jay North, known for his role as Dennis Mitchell in Sixties sitcom Dennis the Menace, died Sunday after a battle with cancer, Variety reports.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
6 Apr. 2025
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Symptoms Parents Should Look Out For Neuroblastoma is a cancer that arises from immature nerve cells.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Apr. 2025
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McCall underwent a six-hour operation back in November to remove the 14mm benign cyst from her brain.—
Caroline Frost,
Deadline,
22 Mar. 2025
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My gynecologist diagnoses and removes an ovarian cyst.—
Health,
Health,
5 Mar. 2025
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“Polyp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polyp. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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