癌 (ái) - Cancer — a malignant tumor or disease characterized

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Cancer — a malignant tumor or disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth that can invade surrounding tissues and spread to other parts of the body.

Cancer — a malignant tumor or disease characterized

Usage highlights

Cancer patientCancer cellsCancer treatmentLiver cancerStomach cancerCancer prevention

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Usage & contexts

Examples

  • He was diagnosed with lung cancer (肺癌).
  • Early detection improves cancer survival rates (癌症存活率).
  • Cancer research focuses on developing new treatments (癌症研究).
  • She underwent chemotherapy for breast cancer (乳腺癌).

Collocations

  • Cancer patient(癌症患者)
  • Cancer cells(癌细胞)
  • Cancer treatment(癌症治疗)
  • Liver cancer(肝癌)
  • Stomach cancer(胃癌)
  • Cancer prevention(癌症预防)

Idioms

  • To talk about cancer with a changed expression(谈癌色变)
  • As dreadful as facing cancer(如临大敌，如临癌症)
  • Cancer is like a tiger(癌如猛虎)

Cultural background

FAQ
  • The character 癌 was created in China during the early 20th century by combining 疒 (sickness radical) with 嵒 (rock, cliff) to represent the hard, rock-like quality of tumors.
  • In traditional Chinese medicine, cancer was understood as an imbalance of qi and blood stasis rather than as cellular pathology.
  • The character reflects the perception of cancer as a hard, immovable disease similar to rock formations.

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