How to Use tumor in a Sentence

tumor

noun
  • The Bidens lost their son, Beau, to a brain tumor in 2015.
    — Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 22 May 2025
  • The tumor is not larger than 5 cm but has spread to the lymph nodes.
    — Carrie Madormo, Rn, Health, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Adams is set to have surgery to remove a tumor in just a few days.
    — Hannah Ziegler, ajc, 4 July 2022
  • In 70% of the cases the initial tumor can be removed, and it is cured.
    — Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024
  • Sanchez played with the tumor in his leg last year as a freshman at Tempe.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The mix turned out to be a soup of free-floating lymphoma cells that were shed by the tumor.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
  • For Nancy, the doctor called with good news — the lump is a cyst, not a tumor.
    — Andy Swift, TVLine, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Her husband, Jonathan Barsade, said the cause was a brain tumor.
    — New York Times, 13 Feb. 2022
  • The goal of the first stage (as with every stage) is to remove the entire tumor.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 17 July 2024
  • The right was visibly more swollen than the left because of the tumor.
    — Annie Ernaux, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • His work led to a raft of cancer drugs that seek to block the growth of a tumor’s blood supply.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 28 July 2022
  • Tom Parker, singer and co-founder of the British band The Wanted, has died from a brain tumor.
    — Izzy Colón, SPIN, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The first surgeon could not get deep enough into the brain to remove much of the tumor.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2025
  • This could be a key to their longevity and avoidance of tumors.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 20 Oct. 2023
  • One of the major crises of his life was the diagnosis of a brain tumor back in 1986.
    — Paul Croughton, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Of course, this type of giving is something of a Band-Aid on a brain tumor.
    — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Winston suggests a risky surgery to take out the tumor.
    — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Five years ago, the cancer progressed to a brain tumor.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The tumor had spread through the thyroid gland, onto the carotid artery and into the tracheal rings.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
  • This was not the first recent life challenge for Mr. White, who lost his wife to a brain tumor in 2018.
    — Joann S. Lublin, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Doctors tend to use MRI’s to understand the size of a tumor.
    — Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 22 July 2024
  • Herceptin binds with and blocks the protein, slowing or stopping the growth of the tumor.
    — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The cause was a glioblastoma brain tumor, said her husband, James Biber.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The drugs have beaten back all but one tumor in Monje’s lung.
    — Yuki Noguchi, NPR, 18 Sep. 2024
  • His 5-month-old son, Zen Scott Cannon, has died from a brain tumor.
    — Korin Miller, Health.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The woman had recently had a brain tumor removed and the man told her son to help around the house.
    — cleveland, 25 June 2021
  • The cause was a brain tumor, her daughter, Eve Swannell, said.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2021
  • In 2003, doctors found that Melanie had a benign tumor of the pituitary gland, about the size of a plum.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 28 July 2022
  • Doctors rushed to reduce the swelling on my kidney, draining fluid dumped by the tumor.
    — Noor Hassan, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
  • The title is particularly special for Evans, who had surgery for a brain tumor almost two years ago.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 22 June 2025

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