Synonyms for oncology
ɒŋˈkɒl ə dʒion·col·o·gy

Princeton's WordNet

1. oncologynoun

   the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of tumors

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1. • Medicine

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1. List of paraphrases for "oncology":

   oncological, tumor, tumour, cancer

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How to use oncology in a sentence?

1. Doug Hawkins:

   The pediatric cancer research community depends upon the hard work of advocates, like Nancy Goodman and Mark Miller, to make sure the voice of children with cancer is represented in the federal budget and to increase the incentives for new drug development for pediatric oncology through regulatory requirements.

2. Josef Woodman:

   With Mexico and Costa Rica, it’s overwhelmingly dental and cosmetic surgery. However, certain countries are known for specialties. For example, in Singapore, stem cell and oncology is huge. In India, South India and Chennai Apollo hospitals does incredible work with hip and knee surgeries, in Eastern Europe, a lot of people from the UK – but also people from the United States – travel to Hungary, Croatia and Turkey for everything from dental to light cosmetic surgery.

3. Novartis Pharmaceuticals:

   The new structure reflects the importance of oncology to Novartis following the successful integration of the oncology assets acquired from GlaxoSmithKline.

4. Elias Zerhouni:

   Immuno-oncology is just at the beginning of its development, frankly, I think it won't be enough to just remove a checkpoint inhibitor because it is also important to activate the immune system.

5. Jonathan Simons:

   This area of active surveillance and management is a new form of oncology.