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Discover LudwigThe phrase "initial cancer" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to the early stage or first occurrence of cancer in a patient.
Example: "The doctor explained that the treatment plan would focus on addressing the initial cancer before considering any further interventions."
Alternatives: "early-stage cancer" or "primary cancer."
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Christensen's initial cancer diagnosis turned out to be incorrect.
His owners had spent about $7,000 over four months of treatments after the initial cancer diagnosis.
But he looked increasingly frail and thin, which looked increasingly like the effects of a spread of the initial cancer.
Her diagnosis comes months after an initial cancer scare and a lump that proves (after a harrowing period of waiting and wondering) to be benign.
And when the second pathologist, Dr. Wallace Clark, an eminent authority on melanoma, examined the first specimen he concluded that the initial cancer diagnosis was wrong.
Thanks to advances in cancer treatment, more than half of all cancer patients now live five years or more past their initial cancer diagnosis.
Initial cancer fraction: 0.02.
Dotted line: initial cancer fraction is 0.85.
The initial cancer fraction is 0.02.
a and b Initial cancer fraction: 0.51.
Solid line: initial cancer fraction is 0.02.
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