Definition of "malignancies" []

• Plural form of malignancy. (noun)

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• "Also, the NY-ESO-1 antigen is found in many other cancers, including breast, prostate, esophageal, lung and ovarian malignancies, meaning the treatment might work in those patients as well."
• "What also attracted me to medicine is that I was under the impression that diseases can be cured: as children, we may have been influenced by short, self-limiting diseases that affected us, like influenza and measles, and were not directly aware of the major killers that left physicians and scientists alike helpless (much like these days), such as malignancies, vascular diseases and neuro-degenerative disorders: I had not appreciated at the time how far more descriptive medicine is, much more than biology."
• "The Food and Drug Administration approved Provenge, sometimes called a "cancer vaccine" because it stimulates the immune systems of men with advanced prostate cancer to attack their malignancies."