How to Use tumor in a Sentence

tumor

noun
Definition of tumornext
Synonyms for tumornext
  • The tumor is not larger than 5 cm but has spread to the lymph nodes.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Finding and killing only those cells flagged as part of a tumor offers a way to fight cancer.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2022
  • And because the growth was in his midbrain stem, there was no way to remove the tumor, said his mom, Huifan Chan.
    — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2024
  • Testing to look for circulating tumor DNA in the blood is not new.
    — Colin Pritchard Professor, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Later, a magnetic resonance imaging scan showed a tumor behind his left knee.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The tech giant has long sought access to a priceless trove of veterans’ skin samples, tumor biopsies and slices of organs.
    — James Bandler, ProPublica, 12 Dec. 2022
  • After five years, just 3% saw cancer come back, similar to rates from previous lumpectomy studies in patients with only one tumor.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Instead, the companies can show that their drugs improved a health marker, such as shrinking the patient’s tumor, then confirm in a study after approval that their drugs do indeed work.
    — Liz Essley Whyte, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2022
  • But these tumor suppressors, as they’re known, have largely been overlooked by drug developers who lacked good ways to tap into these cancer-suppressing powers.
    — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In contrast, tumor cells can maintain the lengths of their telomeres by activating an enzyme called telomerase that rebuilds telomeres during each replication.
    — Jonathan Alder, The Conversation, 10 Nov. 2022
  • When the scan came back and revealed a grade two meningioma, a noncancerous brain tumor that forms in the brain or spine, according to Today, Davis knew her life was going to change.
    — Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Tragically, life expectancy for patients with the tumor ranges from three to 18 months after diagnosis.
    — Sophie Dodd, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2022
  • That same Nobel also honored the alternate means of revving up the immune response: providing an influx of tumor-attacking immune cells.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2022
  • In 70% of the cases the initial tumor can be removed, and it is cured.
    — Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The mix turned out to be a soup of free-floating lymphoma cells that were shed by the tumor.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The goal of the first stage (as with every stage) is to remove the entire tumor.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 17 July 2024
  • This could be a key to their longevity and avoidance of tumors.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • One of the major crises of his life was the diagnosis of a brain tumor back in 1986.
    — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The tumor had spread through the thyroid gland, onto the carotid artery and into the tracheal rings.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • Doctors tend to use MRI’s to understand the size of a tumor.
    — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 22 July 2024
  • The cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor, said her husband, James Biber.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • A number of the songs were written the day Seaborn’s tumor was discovered.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 May 2023
  • The test works by looking for cancer signals from DNA shed by tumors in the blood stream.
    — Bruce Gil, Quartz, 23 May 2024
  • The man, named Mo, had died from complications of a brain tumor.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The disease had taken root in her colon and spread to her liver, coating it in tumors.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In the active monitoring group, 9% of the tumors had spread, compared to half that many in the treatment groups.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2023
  • This syndrome can cause endocrine glands to grow tumors on them.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Scans revealed Miller had an eight-centimeter-wide tumor on the right side of his brain.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Her husband, the architect James Biber, said the cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor.
    — Penelope Green, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The president's eldest son, Beau, died from a brain tumor.
    — Kevin McGill, ajc, 11 Mar. 2023

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'tumor.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: