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Recent Examples of cyst
That May, Kristy said, a large cyst formed on his surgical scar.
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Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
Essence online said the surgery came from an inflamed cyst that the artist had that led to internal bleeding.
—Ralph Green, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2026
Multiple blood tests and 108 pelvis, transabdominal and transvaginal ultrasound images later, my ER doctor informed me of a possible ovarian cyst rupture.
—Angelica Zhiyu Luo, SELF, 3 Mar. 2026
About five months after her release in June 2024, she was hospitalized for heavy bleeding and underwent surgery for a ruptured ovarian cyst.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
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Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2026
Essence online said the surgery came from an inflamed cyst that the artist had that led to internal bleeding.
—Ralph Green, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2026
Multiple blood tests and 108 pelvis, transabdominal and transvaginal ultrasound images later, my ER doctor informed me of a possible ovarian cyst rupture.
—Angelica Zhiyu Luo, SELF, 3 Mar. 2026
About five months after her release in June 2024, she was hospitalized for heavy bleeding and underwent surgery for a ruptured ovarian cyst.
—Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cyst
Noun
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Williams informed Daver and Guy, who independently confirmed the existence of this femoral tubercle.—
Cody Cottier,
Scientific American,
2 Jan. 2026
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Still, months later, a quote tweet will appear at intervals highlighting a necklace, tubercle, or ice cube tray lurking in the deep space of the photo.—
Paul McAdory,
Them.,
9 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The second type of polyp is small, wart-like and occurs in clusters.—
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Apr. 2026
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The second type of polyp is small, wart-like and occurs in clusters, serving to create a water current through the colony.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
23 Apr. 2026
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Critically, each feeding polyp sends its food to a common digestive system, so the entire colony feeds as one unified organism.—
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Apr. 2026
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One type of polyp handles feeding, extending above the sand and secreting a mucus net to capture small prey.—
Samantha Agate,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
23 Apr. 2026
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Her official diagnosis was progesterone and estrogen-positive, HER2-negative invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), which is the most common form of breast cancer, accounting for 80% of all breast cancer diagnoses, according to John Hopkins Medicine.—
Meredith Wilshere,
PEOPLE,
18 Apr. 2026
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This clinical trial is targeting clear cell renal cell carcinoma, the most common kind of kidney cancer.—
Noelle Harff,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2026
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Durnell says decades of Roundup use caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma.—
Christiana Freitag,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
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AstraZeneca is conducting a Phase 2 trial of its combination therapy for patients with an aggressive form of lymphoma.—
Lizzy Lawrence,
STAT,
28 Apr. 2026
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And in 2025, UCSD researchers were awarded $25 million to develop biomarkers capable of anticipating tumor evolution and predicting how malignancies will respond to treatment.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2026
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Metastatic pancreatic cancer patients who received a targeted pill from Revolution Medicines lived nearly twice as long as patients who received chemotherapy, a striking result in an especially deadly and intractable malignancy.—
Jason Mast,
STAT,
13 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Like the vaccine that helped Blechner, Merck and Moderna’s melanoma treatment is personalized, meaning an individual patient’s tumor cells are used to engineer a highly specific immune response.—
Caleb Hellerman,
CNN Money,
20 Apr. 2026
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McEntire was a stepmother to Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson’s ex-husband, who died in August 2025, years after being diagnosed with melanoma, a type of skin cancer.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
16 Apr. 2026
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But, after the couple retired and migrated south to Mexico City, Hurst dove back into photography with gusto, until his death, from cancer, in 2023.—
Chris Wiley,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2026
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Buckingham Palace announced in February 2024 that Charles had a form of cancer, discovered after a corrective procedure for an enlarged prostate.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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“Cyst.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cyst. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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