Synonyms for cancerous
can·cer·ous

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1. cancerousadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncancerous

2. cancerousadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncancerous

3. cancerousadjective

   Antonyms:
   noncancerous

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1. cancerousadjective

   relating to or affected with cancer

   "a cancerous growth"

   Antonyms:
   benignant, benign

2. cancerousadjective

   like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads

   "remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"

   Antonyms:
   benign, benignant

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1. List of paraphrases for "cancerous":

   malignant

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1. Boat Commission:

   Cancerous growths and tumors on fish are extremely rare in Pennsylvania and throughout the U.S., but they do occur.

2. Jussi Taipale at Cambridge:

   Although we don't yet understand the mechanisms ... we believe that researchers need to be aware of the potential risks when developing new treatments, this is why we decided to publish our findings as soon as we discovered that cells edited with CRISPR-Cas9 can go on to become cancerous.

3. Elvis Costello:

   Six weeks ago my specialist called me and said, 'You should start playing the Lotto', he had rarely, if ever, seen such a small but very aggressive cancerous malignancy that could be defeated by a single surgery.

4. Jeff Bulte:

   If we tune the MRI to detect sugars attached to a particular protein, we can see the difference between normal and cancerous cells.

5. Kevin Pollock:

   It is associated with near elimination of both low and high-grade cervical disease in young Scottish women eight years after the vaccine program started, the figures are impressive and show a reduction of up to 90 percent of cervical disease abnormalities - pre-cancerous cells.