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- adjective Alternative spelling of
precancerous .
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Examples
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When a doctor I had never met before came in, he told me I had "a hydatidiform molar pregnancy" -- a potentially pre-cancerous condition where an embryo had started out, but as the pregnancy continued, the chorionic villi in the uterus grew out of control, resulting in a uterus filled with cancer, and maybe even, a dead fetus or "miscellaneous fetal tissue".
Nancy Cronk: In Praise of Midwives: Having a Baby Is Not an Illness Nancy Cronk 2011
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Co-author Evelyn Whitlock, a director of evidence-based medicine at Kaiser Permanente Northwest in Portland, Ore., said HPV tests were possibly better than Pap tests in detecting pre-cancerous tissue, but they perhaps give rise to more "false positive" tests that could lead to unnecessary medical procedures.
Panel Faults Virus Test to Spot Cervical Cancer Thomas M. Burton 2011
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In all likelihood, one if not all of the lesions are either cancerous or pre-cancerous.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: After the Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Now What? Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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When a doctor I had never met before came in, he told me I had "a hydatidiform molar pregnancy" -- a potentially pre-cancerous condition where an embryo had started out, but as the pregnancy continued, the chorionic villi in the uterus grew out of control, resulting in a uterus filled with cancer, and maybe even, a dead fetus or "miscellaneous fetal tissue".
Nancy Cronk: In Praise of Midwives: Having a Baby Is Not an Illness Nancy Cronk 2011
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In all likelihood, one if not all of the lesions are either cancerous or pre-cancerous.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: After the Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Now What? Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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In all likelihood, one if not all of the lesions are either cancerous or pre-cancerous.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: After the Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Now What? Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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In all likelihood, one if not all of the lesions are either cancerous or pre-cancerous.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: After the Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Now What? Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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Example: About every six months I need to have a medical professional check skin for some 50 letter-latin-word that means "pre-cancerous lesions".
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In all likelihood, one if not all of the lesions are either cancerous or pre-cancerous.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: After the Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Now What? Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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In all likelihood, one if not all of the lesions are either cancerous or pre-cancerous.
Hollye Harrington Jacobs: After the Breast Cancer Diagnosis: Now What? Hollye Harrington Jacobs 2011
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