cancer death
Malignancy claims life
A cancer death is a death caused by cancer, as distinguished from other causes like heart disease, accidents, or old age.
The phrase appears most often in medical and epidemiological contexts: Cancer deaths have declined since the 1990s, The study tracked cancer deaths over a twenty-year period.
- terminalAt the endpoint
- end stageFinal progression period
- last daysConcluding time span
- oncologyCancer medicine specialty
- tumorAbnormal tissue mass
hospice · chemotherapy · malignant · grief · mortality · metastasis · diagnosis · survivor · palliative · comfort care · radiation · losing battle · loss · funeral · mourning · prognosis · suffering · hospital
- fatal causeshomicide, suicide, drowning, electrocution, suffocation
- deathshanging, beheading, guillotine, assassination, execution
disease outcome
cancer deathcancer survival
Outliving a malignant diagnosis
cancer cure · remission · full recovery · spontaneous remission · cancer survivor
cancer, death, cancers, cancerous, deaths, dead, deadly, deathly, deadness