How to Use retinoblastoma in a Sentence

retinoblastoma

noun
Definition of retinoblastomanext
  • The other has retinoblastoma, and the tumors have left him legally blind.
    — Christopher Tangney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Olson lost his eye sight to retinoblastoma, a form of eye cancer.
    — Jason Gold Diehards, ajc, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Olson was born with retinoblastoma, a cancer of the retina.
    — Jim Kleinpeter, NOLA.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Julia has a rare form of eye cancer called retinoblastoma.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 1 May 2020
  • Olson was born with an eye cancer called retinoblastoma.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Research involves chemotherapy to treat retinoblastoma, a cancer that begins in the retina, the black part of the eyeball.
    — Joe Davidson | Columnist, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2017
  • He was inspired by the experience of his oldest son Noah, who was diagnosed with retinoblastoma at 4 months old.
    — CBS News, 12 Feb. 2020
  • Shortly after his daughter Christy was born, she was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a cancer that took her eyesight at a young age.
    — Nataly Keomoungkhoun, Dallas News, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Both children were diagnosed at the age of 2 with an advanced stage of a rare and aggressive eye cancer called retinoblastoma that usually occurs in kids younger than 5.
    — Daniel Chang, miamiherald, 21 May 2018
  • Doctors diagnosed him with retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the retina that mostly affects infants and young children.
    — Samantha Bresnahan, CNN, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Two short days after first being diagnosed with retinoblastoma, Carly-Faith returned home from outpatient surgery with only one eye.
    — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Because retinoblastoma can be hereditary in some cases, all kids diagnosed with the cancer must undergo two forms of genetic testing.
    — Amie Just | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 29 Oct. 2020

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