Cancer vs Gary - What's the difference?
cancer | gary |
(medicine, oncology, disease) A disease in which the cells of a tissue undergo uncontrolled (and often rapid) proliferation.
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A town in Indiana, and other US places named for persons with the surname Gary.
A city in South Dakota
, popular from the 1940s to the 1970s.
As a noun cancer
is cancer.As a proper noun gary is
.cancer
English
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