癌症 áizhèng cancer
How to remember 癌症: 癌 cancer + 症 ailment = cancer.
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How it is used
- Cancer - 得了癌症 (déle áizhèng) to get cancer; 癌症晚期 (late-stage cancer).
- The general disease term; specific cancers use 癌 as a suffix (肺癌 lung cancer, 胃癌 stomach cancer).
- Reading áizhèng. Figuratively, a deep-rooted intractable problem may be called a 社会毒瘤/癌症.
Example sentences
- 我有癌症。 Wǒ yǒu áizhèng.I have cancer.
- 科学家们还不知道怎么治疗癌症。 Kēxuéjiā men hái bù zhīdào zěnme zhìliáo áizhèng.Scientists haven't found a cure for cancer yet.
- 科学家们还没有找到癌症的治疗方法。 Kēxuéjiā men hái méiyǒu zhǎodào áizhèng de zhìliáo fāngfǎ.Scientists haven't found a cure for cancer yet.