How to Use chemo in a Sentence
chemo
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Tough days hit before the chemo did.
—Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 1 Feb. 2026
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Right now the best course of action is chemo pills.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026
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That is the part that hit me the hardest — the idea of chemo.
—USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
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For now, that means chemo twice a month and scans every few months.
—Kate Rockwood, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2018
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My hair started to grow back a few months after my last chemo.
—Jennifer Garam, Allure, 29 Dec. 2020
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Has cannabis helped in your healing process with the chemo treatment?
—Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
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And still will in 2018, if his health holds through the chemo.
—Peter King, SI.com, 14 May 2018
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That has prompted many to turn to chemo to avoid the spread of the disease.
—Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 3 June 2018
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The process starts with a patient putting on a tight frozen cap before chemo.
—Jamie Yuccas, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2021
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Just three months later, scans showed that the chemo had shrunk the tumors.
—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 18 Mar. 2026
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That's because the chemo is killing healthy cells along with the cancer ones.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
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It's been a long slog of a year with chemo and treatments and losing my hair.
—Washington Post, 20 June 2021
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Plus, chemo can damage blood vessels.
—Erica Sloan, SELF, 10 Feb. 2026
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On my first day of chemo, my mom, dad, sister, and husband were all there.
—Allie Kubik, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2026
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And his thick head of hair had proved impervious to the chemo.
—David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
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When your last chemo has come and gone Ring this bell to tell everyone!
—Mark Stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2017
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Caspar watched the back of his head, sallow under the chemo fuzz.
—Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2025
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The thought of losing our hair—through chemo, the menopause, stress—is our worst nightmare.
—Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
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After the second round of chemo, his hopes had dimmed somewhat.
—Charles Fleming, latimes.com, 26 May 2017
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As a result of the chemo, Janz also lost all his then pale-blond hair.
—Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 June 2022
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He was taken with a sense of optimism, which came and went as the chemo dragged on.
—Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
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About 17% of women had high-risk scores and were advised to have chemo.
—Marilynn Marchione, latimes.com, 3 June 2018
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This new drug has been a complete 180-degree switch from chemo.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 12 Nov. 2025
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But Leslie kept me sane through those last months of chemo, staging karaoke contests with fake mikes.
—Noor Hassan, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2025
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The chemo treatment had weakened his immune system and the virus hit him hard.
—Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2023
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Having so much chemo for such a long time did cause some changes in my body that are probably here to stay.
—Glamour, 9 Dec. 2025
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After the ninth round of chemo, scans showed Staley to be cancer free.
—Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
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She was soon diagnosed with throat and breast cancer and began chemo.
—Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 26 June 2026
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But another reader says that the book got them through chemo, or through divorce.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
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Her tumor shrunk by 70 percent after the first found of chemo.
—Naseem S. Miller, OrlandoSentinel.com, 21 Apr. 2018
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