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precancerous
precancerous adj.
Brit. 
/(ˌ)priːˈkans(ə)rəs/
, /(ˌ)priːˈkans(ə)rəs/U.S. /ˌpriˈkæns(ə)rəs/
Medicine occurring as a precursor to cancer./ˌpriˈkæns(ə)rəs/ΘΚΠ
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precancerous1879
pre-malignant1884
1879 Lancet 1 Mar. 299/1 The pre-cancerous period of the malignant disease.
1899 J. Hutchinson in Arch. Surg. 10 182 An early stage of epithelioma;—a pre-cancerous stage.
1975 Sci. Amer. Nov. 78/3 Screening programs have an additional shortcoming: for every cancer they detect they reveal perhaps 10 other abnormalities, many of which seem to be precancerous.
1994 Nat. Health Nov. 8/2 People who already have pre-cancerous changes in their lungs.
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