富癌 (fu3 ngaam4) — "rich cancer": forms of cancer typically afflicting higher economic classes or people in first world countries (e.g., breast cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, etc.) as opposed to 窮癌 ("poor cancer") such as various gastric cancers in Cantonese

fu˗₃ngaamˎ₄
Mandarin Pinyin: fu4 ai2

Meaning of 富癌

noun"rich cancer": forms of cancer typically afflicting higher economic classes or people in first world countries (e.g., breast cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, etc.) as opposed to 窮癌 ("poor cancer") such as various gastric cancers

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