How to Use chemotherapy in a Sentence

chemotherapy

noun
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  • At the same time, Janz had to undergo chemotherapy to destroy the rest of the faulty cells.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 June 2022
  • There is a chance — a good enough chance — that the chemotherapy will be effective.
    — Eldiara Doucette, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • But despite two rounds of chemotherapy, the cancer had spread to the other lung.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Each had 2½ years of chemotherapy with six months of overlap.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • The goal of chemotherapy is to kill the cancer cells while (barely) keeping the patient alive.
    — Vijay Pande, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
  • If my lymph nodes were cancer-free, I’d be cleared to skip chemotherapy.
    — Alexis Berger, SELF, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Bulky IVs of high-dose chemotherapy pumped through my veins for nearly a year.
    — Maria Yogoda, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2024
  • With the chemotherapy now done, Yaneli will have to return to the hospital for the hip surgeries.
    — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Over the past four months, chemotherapy has shrunk most of the tumors that spread rampantly through Jesse’s body.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 8 Feb. 2023
  • In the weeks before her death, her mother had a full course of chemotherapy and was fatigued.
    — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • After my first round of chemotherapy, my throat closed up.
    — Rachel S. Hunt, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
  • There are all kinds of ways of being in this world, and one of them is living while going through chemotherapy.
    — Anna Holmes, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The month-long cycle of heavy-duty chemotherapy did its job.
    — Dom Amore, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The celebrity chef has so far completed six weeks of chemotherapy, with many more to go.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 31 July 2024
  • After a chemotherapy session, the patient collapsed on the street, cracking open his head on the curb.
    — Sunita Puri, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Two rounds of chemotherapy didn’t slow the growth, and the tumor began to push against his leg structure, the agony unbearable.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The chemotherapy was done in three-week cycles – the first week would be three days of treatment, the following week would be one day, and then a week off.
    — Chris Iseman, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Matt fought not just the cancer, but the effects of chemotherapy and other treatment.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • It’s one of the most important parts of the ALL chemotherapy regimen.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Still, in the early going of eight chemotherapy treatments, there are rough days.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2022
  • After a couple of months, the chemotherapy couldn’t hold back the cancer anymore.
    — Olivia Jordan Cornelius, Outside Online, 15 July 2024
  • Robin Roberts appeared in the episode that discussed the impact of chemotherapy on Audrey and her doll, Hannah.
    — Karen Idelson, Variety, 15 June 2022
  • Thompson had surgery to remove the mass and underwent five months of chemotherapy.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Olivia Crudup said the sound of a horn would especially hurt Hannah’s ears since they have been damaged from the chemotherapy.
    — Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023
  • When Nick moved in, Mandy Corley had just gone through six months of chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Mahon said that the chemotherapy has stopped working and her tumor is now spreading across her brain.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Created in 1998, cold caps work by cooling the scalp and constricting blood flow to the root, with the hopes of limiting the amount of chemotherapy actives that reach the hair.
    — Tayler Adigun, Essence, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Caleb started chemotherapy at only 10 months old, and the search for a liver donor began.
    — Dan Heching, PEOPLE.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • In 2014, Dickinson was diagnosed with throat cancer, but got the all-clear the next year after nearly three dozen radiation sessions and weeks of chemotherapy.
    — Rachel Desantis, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
  • The intensive chemotherapy lasts four days and makes patients extremely ill and susceptible to infection.
    — Jason Kane, NBC News, 18 Jan. 2025

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