non-cancerous
Adjective
Meaning
non-cancerous (not comparable)
Alternative spelling of noncancerous
Examples
After chemotherapy, the performance of cancerous mice worsened and the non-cancerous mice also showed signs of cognitive impairment.
She defined uterine fibroids as “non-cancerous growths in the uterus that can develop during a woman’s childbearing years”.
Fibroids are non-cancerous tumors that grow in the uterine wall and cause painful periods, heavy bleeding and are a major cause of hysterectomies.
Polyps are non-cancerous growths that form on the walls of your gallbladder.
Further studies are performed to determine if the abnormality is (non-cancerous), or (cancerous.) If these show cancer, further tests may be performed to see whether the cancer has spread () to other areas in the body.
It was reported that Vivi was diagnosed with uterine fibroids (non-cancerous tumours that grow from the muscle layers of the womb) before expecting her firstborn.