Illustration: In a Japanese hospital consultation room, a doctor and an adult patient examine a large anatomical teaching model of a lung. A cutaway reveals an irregular mass whose uneven extensions penetrate the surrounding lung tissue, with smaller connected deposits nearby.

がん

gan

cancer

Example sentences

クッキーのお母かあさんはガンで死しんだ。
Cookie’s mother died of cancer.
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彼かれは癌がんで死しんだ。
He died of cancer.
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彼かれはガンにかかった。
He has got cancer.
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