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Adjective: cancerous  kan-su-rus
  1. Relating to or affected with cancer
    "a cancerous growth"
     
  2. Like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads
    "remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"

See also: malign, malignant

Encyclopedia: Cancerous