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. Van Houten:

   The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analyzing tissues, we're acquiring a company that has deep clinical knowledge and technology to analyze cancerous cells.

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. 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.

4. Frank Lyko:

   What we see in slow motion with the marbled crayfish evolution is something that happens during the very early stages of tumour formation, in many ways, the invasive expansion of [the marbled crayfish] is analogous to a cancerous lineage spreading asexually at the expense of its host.

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.