cancerology

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Etymology

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From cancer +‎ -ology.

Noun

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cancerology (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, dated) The scientific study of cancer.
    • 1920 March, “Institute "Pricipe de Asturias" for the investigation and study of cancer”, in Bulletin, volume 2, number 3, American Cancer Society:
      It is at one and the same time a centre of research and a benevolent undertaking. Furthermore, it would tend to give concretion to a group of medical studies which might be brought under the heading of “Cancerology,” or, to be more comprehensive and scientific, of “Oncology.”

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