How to Use adenocarcinoma in a Sentence

adenocarcinoma

noun
  • Most breast cancers are a type of carcinoma called adenocarcinoma that starts in the milk ducts or milk-producing glands.
    — Ashley May, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2017
  • The study noted that these patients tended to have adenocarcinoma, the most common type of lung cancer among never-smokers.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025
  • What’s more, effective screening tools don’t yet exist for some diseases, such as small bowel adenocarcinoma.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The study showed treatment potential for lung adenocarcinoma—a type of non-small cell lung cancer—in particular.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • What the researchers found was that the rate of in situ adenocarcinoma cases—meaning cases in which the cancer hadn't spread—in most age groups and subsites decreased over time.
    — Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Health.com, 2 Feb. 2022
  • She was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma, a cancer that forms in the glandular cells of the body—most often found in the breast, pancreas, lung, prostate, and colon.
    — Leah Groth, Health.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Eating that same extra 30 grams a day was also linked to a 13% higher risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma.
    — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2026
  • But the main event here is Gabby and her pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
    — Laura Bradley, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Pink visual of lung cancer adenocarcinoma cells.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The cause was adenocarcinoma, said a daughter, Martha Cassidy.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2017
  • Jenks has been diagnosed with Stage 4 adenocarcinoma, a form of stomach cancer.
    — Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Over time, these abnormal cells can become cancerous, leading to a cancer called esophageal adenocarcinoma.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 7 Mar. 2025
  • In 2012, he was diagnosed with a form of cancer called signet ring cell adenocarcinoma, which was based in his abdominal area.
    — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2017
  • Squamous cell carcinomas develop in the airways of the lungs, as opposed to adenocarcinomas that develop on the outer edges of the lungs.
    — Sanja Jelic, Verywell Health, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Worldwide, adenocarcinoma made up more than 45% of lung cancer cases in males and nearly 60% of female cases.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Six weeks later, Valvano, known as Jimmy V, passed away from metastatic adenocarcinoma.
    — John Maffei, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • The cause was cardiac arrest with multisystem organ failures due to septic shock, and metastatic adenocarcinoma.
    — Ryan Pearson, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • Cancers, such as the common intestinal adenocarcinoma, were reduced by over 50%.
    — Jay Willis, GQ, 27 June 2017
  • The most common form of the cancer, pancreatic adenocarcinoma, carries a five-year survival rate of just 5 to 10 percent.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Lung adenocarcinoma often has late detection and high recurrence rates after treatment.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Peck had been battling his illness — a rare form of sinus cancer that’s closely related to adenocarcinoma — since 2015.
    — Molly Duerig, azcentral, 7 Sep. 2019
  • The actor’s passing was announced by his family on a Facebook page devoted to his battle with adenocarcinoma cancer.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Following a skin biopsy, doctors confirmed that the man's colon cancer had metastasized to his skin, and the patient was diagnosed with metastatic colon adenocarcinoma.
    — Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 10 June 2020
  • Katie was diagnosed with stage 4 gastric adenocarcinoma, a rare form of stomach cancer, at the beginning of the year and was undergoing chemotherapy in the months since.
    — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • And on top of all that, in 2018, his mother got diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, the same type of cancer Young ultimately got.
    — Simar Bajaj, STAT, 18 Aug. 2023
  • For example, adenocarcinoma is a type of lung cancer that is more common among women -- yet the risk of this lung cancer subtype decreases more slowly than other subtypes when people stop smoking.
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 24 May 2018
  • Of all exocrine pancreatic cancers, about 95% are adenocarcinomas, which usually begin in the ducts of the pancreas.
    — Christina Oehler, Health.com, 23 Aug. 2019
  • After tests at an animal hospital, he was diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, a form of cancer, and his health declined rapidly shortly afterward.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Exocrine tumors are the majority of pancreatic cancers, and the most common form is called adenocarcinoma, which begins in gland cells, usually in the ducts of the pancreas.
    — Elizabeth Landau, CNN, 23 Aug. 2019
  • An aggressive cancer featuring adenocarcinomas, cancer that develops in the glands that line your organs, and carcinoids, a type of slow-growing tumor.
    — USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024

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