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liver_cancer

liver cancer

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liver cancer (usually uncountable, plural liver cancers)

  1. (medicine) A malignant neoplasm of the liver.
    • 2013 June 29, A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 72-3:
      Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. [] Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism. Dr Yoshimoto and his colleagues would like to add liver cancer to that list.

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