"cancerous" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe something that shows characteristics of cancer, or to refer to something that is affected by cancer. For example, "Her cancerous tumor was removed during the surgery" or "The disease spread to other parts of his body, becoming increasingly cancerous."
And, in a more sinister twist, it is often the epigenome of a cancer cell that makes its daughters cancerous, too.
However not all cervical cancers found at screening will become fully cancerous and need treatment.
For acquired diseases, such as cancer, gene-therapy trials are introducing genes that are intended to kill cancerous cells.
Chemotherapy was used to destroy the cancerous cells in his immune system, replacing the tissue with bone marrow from a donor with a natural immunity to the virus.
In 1972 she held a press conference in the hospital room where she'd recently before had a cancerous left breast removed.
However, friends say they should be checked for cancerous changes.
It was challenging at times: getting my potentially cancerous tonsils removed and drinking nothing but cold soup for a week; and getting my testicles cut open to look for spermatozoon to freeze in case I want children in the future, as chemotherapy can affect fertility.
He sometimes wonders about a more aggressive or cancerous tumour recurring, "But I'll deal with it if it does.
Other services covered without copays or cost-sharing include: Preventive screening, genetic counseling and BRCA genetic testing for women at increased risk for having a potentially harmful mutation in genes that suppress cancerous tumors.
The strange, symbiotic relationship between medicine and social oppression is here given full-colour form: not only by anatomical illustrations of paupers' and criminals' corpses, but also by what – were they not so disfigured – would be regarded as straightforward portraits of the leprous and the syphilitic, the tubercular and the cancerous.
The broadcaster, whose book also describes his battle to cover the election while being treated for a cancerous tumour on his lung, has not spoken publicly about the offer before, but says he could not resist telling his staff and his wife about the "extraordinary" approach.
