can·cer ˈkansər/Submit noun the disease caused by an uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in a part of the body. "he's got cancer" a malignant growth or tumor resulting from the division of abnormal cells. plural noun: cancers "most skin cancers are curable" synonyms: malignant growth, cancerous growth, tumor, malignancy; More a practice or phenomenon perceived to be evil or destructive and hard to contain or eradicate. "racism is a cancer sweeping across Europe" synonyms: evil, blight, scourge, poison, canker, plague; archaicpestilence "the cancer of slavery spread across the continent" Too bad that’s not the only way the word cancer could be used.

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