cancerousnessn.

1730 N. Bailey Dict. Britannicum Cancerousness,..the being cancerated.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Cancerousness, the state of being cancerous.

1854 C. H. Jones & E. H. Sieveking Man. Pathol. Anat. 196 The exact limit, we believe, at which cancerousness is lost, cannot be marked by any characters of a growth itself.

1886 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 23 Jan. 159/2 The cancerousness or structural infectiveness of the localised condition is a summation or integration of the morbid habit.

1962 Lancet 13 Jan. 91/2 The basic reason why the results of treating cancer are so unsatisfactory is that there has never been a reliable index of ‘cancerousness’ which could be followed through in the same patient.

1990 European Jrnl. Cancer & Clin. Oncol. 26 1006/1 The role of antibodies in diagnosis is to target aspects of the essential cancerousness of a cancer cell that makes it different from normal.

2001 N. Henry Pearl's Secret 283 But I also felt a lingering sadness, sharper than any I had felt previously, over the cancerousness, the sheer wastefulness, of racial prejudice and bigotry.