How to Use carcinoma in a Sentence

carcinoma

noun
  • Squamous cell carcinoma of the skin is a type of cancer that starts as a growth of cells on the skin.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 2 Dec. 2025
  • These include melanoma and a rare type called Merkel cell carcinoma.
    — Casey Gallagher, Health, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Tongue cancer that starts in these cells is called squamous cell carcinoma.
    — Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
  • That little patch turned out to be a basal cell carcinoma, the most common type of skin cancer.
    — Diane Omdahl, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • As far as cancer treatments go, treating a basal cell carcinoma is a cinch.
    — Macaela MacKenzie, Allure, 2 July 2018
  • For squamous cell carcinoma patients, though, the lines weren’t as clear.
    — Leslie Baumann, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The most severe cause involves basal cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer.
    — Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 24 July 2024
  • But if it's not treated, squamous cell carcinoma of the skin can grow large or spread to other parts of the body.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Basal cell carcinoma may look like a pearly bump, a sore that doesn’t heal, or a pink, scaly patch, Massick says.
    — Stacey Colino, Time, 9 July 2025
  • The lesion was basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer.
    — Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Basal cell carcinoma begins in the basal cells — a type of cell within the skin that produces new skin cells as old ones die off.
    — Becca Longmire, People.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Low-grade ductal carcinoma in situ, a common type of breast cancer, is one such disease.
    — David Ropeik, STAT, 28 Feb. 2022
  • He’d been diagnosed four years ago with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare form of skin cancer.
    — Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Just how this virus causes Merkel cell carcinoma has yet to be determined.
    — Pamela Avila, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Ductal carcinoma in situ occurs when cancer cells line the ducts in the chest but have not spread to other tissue.
    — Doha Madani, NBC news, 10 June 2026
  • Keaton was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer, at 21 years old.
    — Jason Pham, StyleCaster, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Adenoid cystic carcinoma is most commonly found in the salivary glands of the head and neck.
    — Samantha Bresnahan, CNN, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Testing confirmed the lesion was basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Ductal carcinoma tumors grow outside milk ducts, the tubes that connect the glands to the nipple.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The main types of skin cancer are squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma and melanoma.
    — Amy McGorry, Fox News, 5 July 2023
  • Basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas are the most common types of skin cancers, Chesney said.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare form of skin cancer that develops just beneath the skin and in hair follicles.
    — Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Oteri was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ, an early form of breast cancer.
    — Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026
  • The cause was adenoid cystic carcinoma, a form of cancer, said a son, Chris Mitchell.
    — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • Whereas melanoma looks like a dark mole with jagged edges, Merkel cell carcinoma presents like a pimple, Chesney said.
    — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 7 Sep. 2023
  • In another case, a patient with small cell carcinoma died after the patient was treated for the wrong type of cancer.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 21 Aug. 2019
  • But the surgeons could, and removed a mass that tested positive for Merkel cell carcinoma.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The cause was metastatic squamous cell carcinoma, his wife, Lisa Harrow, said.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • Invasive lobular carcinoma starts in the breast glands (or lobules) that produce milk, and can spread to other parts of the body.
    — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • His wife, Lovell Woods Gamble, said the cause was ameloblastic carcinoma, a rare tumor in the jaw.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018

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