cancerous vs internecine

cancerous

adj
  • Growing or spreading rapidly to the point of harm. 

  • Extremely unpleasant; detestable. 

  • Relating to or affected with cancer. 

internecine

adj
  • Mutually destructive; most often applied to warfare. 

  • Characterized by struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship. 

How often have the words cancerous and internecine occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )