Meaning of cancer In English

• 0 a serious disease that is caused when cells in the body grow in a way that is uncontrolled and not normal, killing normal cells and often causing death:

  • He died of liver cancer.

  • cancer of the cervix/stomach

  • breast/bowel/lung cancer

  • cancer cells

  • a cancer patient

  • It was a secondary cancer.

  • Drug abuse is a cancer that is destroying our society.

• 1 a constellation (= group of stars) said to look like a crab (= a sea creature with five pairs of legs and a hard shell):

  • Praesepe is a faint cluster of stars in the constellation of Cancer.

  • If your birthday is July 10 then your zodiac sign is Cancer.

  • My sister is a Cancer.

• 2 a disease in which cells in the body grow without control, or a serious medical condition caused by this disease:

  • [ U ] He died from cancer of the stomach.

• 3 the fourth sign of the zodiac, covering the period June 22 to July 22 and represented by a crab, or a person born during this period