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Meaning of "cancerophobia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CANCEROPHOBIA

cancerophobia  [ˌkænsərəʊˈfəʊbɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CANCEROPHOBIA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cancerophobia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CANCEROPHOBIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cancerophobia

Cancer

Cancer i/ˈkænsər/, also known as a malignant tumor, is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body.[1][2] Not all tumors are cancerous; benign tumors do not spread to other parts of the body.[2] Possible signs and symptoms include: a new lump, abnormal bleeding, a prolonged cough, unexplained weight loss, and a change in bowel movements, among others.[3] While these symptoms may indicate cancer they may also occur due to other issues.[3] There are over 100 different known cancers that affect humans.[2] Tobacco use is the cause of about 22% of cancer deaths.[1] Another 10% is due to obesity, a poor diet, lack of physical activity, and drinking alcohol.[1] Other factors include certain infections, exposure to ionizing radiation, and environmental pollutants.[4] In the developing world nearly 20% of cancers are due to infections such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and human papillomavirus.[1] These factors act, at least partly, by changing the genes of a cell.[5] Typically many such genetic changes are required before cancer develops.

Definition of cancerophobia in the English dictionary

The definition of cancerophobia in the dictionary is a morbid dread of being afflicted by cancer.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CANCEROPHOBIA


acrophobia
ˌækrəˈfəʊbɪə
aerophobia
ˌɛərəˈfəʊbɪə
agoraphobia
ˌæɡərəˈfəʊbɪə
arachnophobia
əˌræknəˈfəʊbɪə
claustrophobia
ˌklɔːstrəˈfəʊbɪə
emetophobia
ɪˌmetəˈfəʊbɪə
homophobia
ˌhəʊməʊˈfəʊbɪə
hydrophobia
ˌhaɪdrəˈfəʊbɪə
Islamophobia
ˌɪzlɑːməˈfəʊbɪə
monophobia
ˌmɒnəʊˈfəʊbɪə
neophobia
ˌniːəʊˈfəʊbɪə
nomophobia
ˌnəʊməʊˈfəʊbɪə
nyctophobia
ˌnɪktəʊˈfəʊbɪə
phobia
ˈfəʊbɪə
phonophobia
ˌfəʊnəʊˈfəʊbɪə
photophobia
ˌfəʊtəʊˈfəʊbɪə
scopophobia
ˌskɒpəˈfəʊbɪə
technophobia
ˌtɛknəʊˈfəʊbɪə
triskaidekaphobia
ˌtrɪskaɪˌdɛkəˈfəʊbɪə
xenophobia
ˌzɛnəˈfəʊbɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CANCEROPHOBIA

cancellariate
cancellate
cancellated
cancellation
cancelled
canceller
cancelli
cancelling
cancellous
cancer
cancer patient
cancer specialist
cancer stick
cancer-causing
cancerate
canceration
cancered
Cancerian
cancerous
cancerously

WORDS THAT END LIKE CANCEROPHOBIA

aichmophobia
ailurophobia
algophobia
anglophobia
anthropophobia
aquaphobia
astraphobia
astrophobia
autophobia
gynophobia
necrophobia
ornithophobia
panophobia
pyrophobia
Russophobia
school phobia
sitophobia
social phobia
thanatophobia
Zenobia
zoophobia

Synonyms and antonyms of cancerophobia in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cancerophobia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CANCEROPHOBIA

Find out the translation of cancerophobia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cancerophobia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cancerophobia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cancerophobia
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cancerofobia
570 millions of speakers

English

cancerophobia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cancerophobia
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

رهاب السرطان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

канцерофобия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cancerophobia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cancerophobia
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cancérophobie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kansofobia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cancerophobia
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

癌恐怖症
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cancerophobia
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kanker payudara
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cancerophobia
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

புற்றுநோய் அச்சம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कैन्सरफोबिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cancerophobia
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cancerophobia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cancerophobia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

канцерофобия
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cancerophobia
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cancerophobia
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kankervrees
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cancerophobia
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cancerophobia
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cancerophobia

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CANCEROPHOBIA»

The term «cancerophobia» is used very little and occupies the 183.508 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of cancerophobia
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CANCEROPHOBIA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cancerophobia» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cancerophobia» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cancerophobia

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANCEROPHOBIA»

Discover the use of cancerophobia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cancerophobia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Dose Makes the Poison: A Plain-Language Guide to Toxicology
... of a chemical carcinogen behavedasa unit of ionizing radiation, it isdifficult to understand how anyonecouldescape multiple cancers,much lessone cancer. Cancerophobia. The fear of cancer is one of the greatest fears THE REAL WORLD.
Patricia Frank, M. Alice Ottoboni, 2011
2
Fundamentals of Oral Medicine and Radiology
... and 27.1 percent in adulthood. Negative dental experiences were predictive of dental fear regardless of age of onset. CANCEROPHOBIA. It is a persistent fear in the patients mind that they have contracted oral cancer. These are usually ...
Durgesh M. Bailoor, 2005
3
Handbook of Psychooncology: Psychological Care of the ...
Ingelfinger identified cancerophobia in American society as a serious problem in 1975: American cancerophobia, in brief, is a disease as serious to society as cancer is to the individual — and morally more devastating. For this state of affairs, ...
Jimmie C. Holland, Julia Howe Rowland, 1989
4
Psychosomatic medicine in obstetrics and gynaecology
It appears that 46.8% of the women investigated attributed their cancerophobia to various forms of sanitary education. Premenstrual mastodynia appears to be an element enhancing the fear of cancer. Cancerophobia was more frequent ...
Norman Frederick Morris, 1972
5
Understanding cancer: a text for self-education and for ...
When widespread publii education about cancer first began, the issue of possible increase in fear (to the point ol cancerophobia ) was Hotly debated. Cancero- phobia has not increased, however, and psychologically healthy individuals ...
Mark Renneker, Steven Leib, 1979
6
ElderSpeak: A Thesaurus or Compendium of Words Related to ...
Morbid fear of cancer: cancerophobia, carcinomatophobia III. Skin cancerwith horniness: dyskeratoma, dyskeratosis IV. Other: keratoacanthomas, Morton's neuroma cancerophobia (kan”ser-ō-fōb'bi-ə) n. morbid fear of cancer. [L, cancer ( also ...
James L. Reynolds, MD, 2014
7
Health Yearbook 1954
The common people today are educated on cancer and other medical conditions to the extent that cancerophobia, poliophobia, and many other psychological disorders exist in our general population. This is an evil, and this evil is one of the  ...
Health Yearbook 1954, 1943
8
Treatment of Oral Diseases: A Concise Textbook
... Basic Guidelines • Any visible or systemic disease which can produce glossodynia should be ruled out. • Help the patients to rid themselves of cancerophobia or AIDS-phobia and to understand that psychological factors are responsible ...
George Laskaris, 2011
9
Mouth Diseases—Advances in Research and Treatment: 2012 Edition
Patients with BMS showed a higher frequency of current major depressive disorder, past major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, hypochondria and cancerophobia (p <0.05). In BMS patients, generalized anxiety disorder was ...
‎2012
10
Oral and Maxillofacial Medicine,The Basis of Diagnosis and ...
Yes No Consider drug cause: cytotoxics,ACEprotonpumpor protease inhibitors Abnormal haematological results? No No Depression, anxiety or cancerophobia Yes Iron, folateor vitamin B12 deficiency Hypothyroidism Recent oral irradiation?
Crispian Scully, 2013

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CANCEROPHOBIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cancerophobia is used in the context of the following news items.
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“A young unmarried woman aged 24 years, suffering from cancerophobia, came to the clinic in an acute anxiety state, convinced that she had a ... «Discover Magazine, Dec 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cancerophobia [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cancerophobia>. Apr 2024 ».
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