How to Use astrocytoma in a Sentence

astrocytoma

noun
  • Fast forward to now - I have been diagnosed with #diffusemidlineglioma, an extremely rare type of #astrocytoma #cancer.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Mack announced in January that she had been diagnosed with diffuse midline glioma, an extremely rare type of astrocytoma cancer.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Eddie, then 30, was diagnosed with a grade 3 astrocytoma — a fast-growing malignant brain tumor.
    Meredith Wilshere, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Doctors quickly diagnosed Shinae with a cancerous astrocytoma, and told her that it was considered incurable because of where it's located in her brain.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
  • After weeks of CT scans, MRIs and a brain biopsy, she was diagnosed with stage-four astrocytoma, a terminal cancer often found in children.
    Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 1 Dec. 2025
  • However, after surgery to remove the tumor on April 15, pathology results confirmed that Tom had grade 4 astrocytoma — a fast-growing and aggressive brain tumor.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 3 Dec. 2025
  • In September 2021, she was diagnosed with Grade III anaplastic astrocytoma—a brain tumor that develops from a slower-growing mass and becomes more aggressive.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025

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