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noun
the disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body:he’s got cancer smoking is the major cause of lung cancer a malignant growth or tumor resulting from the division of abnormal cells:most skin cancers are curable a practice or phenomenon perceived to be evil or destructive and hard to contain or eradicate:racism is a cancer sweeping across Europe