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Example sentences for: cancer

How can you use “cancer” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

People move between ZIP codes and cancer latency (the time between causative exposures and cancer onset) is estimated to be between 5-40 years for these cancers, so the ZIP code where the patient was diagnosed may not be the location where the cancer developed nor where causative exposures occurred.
Our previous study of Marin County incidence trends showed that, between 1991 and 1997, rates increased at a faster pace among women aged 45-64 years than among women of other ages [ 6 ] . The present analyses confirm and update these observations, and show that the large rate increase between 1990 and 1999 was limited almost entirely to women aged 45-64 years, who represented about one-half of the breast cancer cases diagnosed in the county.
In this study we evaluated whether Met can be detected in the axillary drainage of breast cancer patients, and the significance of its expression in the lymphatic fluid.
(3) van't Veer et al . [ 8 ] did a study of 78 patients with breast cancer.
Suppose that instead of (1), the probability of missingness depends on treatment assignment, baseline strata, and an unobserved binary covariate x . For our example from the Polyp Prevention Trial, x could be an unreported indicator of a family history of colon cancer.