malignant

Ellen felt herself grow “10 feet tall and very thin and very powerful and malignant.”

This independent streak is quintessentially American, we like to tell ourselves, and it can expand to malignant extremes.

Diagnosed with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer affecting soft tissue, Duong has a malignant mass blocking blood flow to his optic nerve.

The new abnormal and unhealthy reality — what Yale University psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton refers to as “malignant normality” — will become the norm across American society.

Last month, my son reached two years in remission from a rare, malignant cancer that almost took his eye and his life.