How to Use chemotherapy in a Sentence

chemotherapy

noun
  • There was chemotherapy and all of the side effects that came with it.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • At the same time, Janz had to undergo chemotherapy to destroy the rest of the faulty cells.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 June 2022
  • Pati, a chemotherapy nurse at the time, help guide her through treatment.
    Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • His wife has breast cancer and is about to restart chemotherapy.
    New York Times, 25 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • Donovan has missed just a few days due to chemotherapy treatments since the start of the wrestling season on April 26.
    BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 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
  • In that, your own stem cells are used and replanted with intense chemotherapy in the middle of the process.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Keyes used the patches and a slue of other opiate prescriptions to soothe the pain from the chemotherapy.
    Asha C. Gilbert, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • He is being treated with a single-use chemotherapy drug and oral steroids, the zoo said.
    Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 18 Nov. 2021
  • The celebrity chef has so far completed six weeks of chemotherapy, with many more to go.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 31 July 2024
  • Treatment called for 15 rounds of chemotherapy over three months.
    Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Farr-Kaye began chemotherapy on Dec. 28 and will be on a 14-day cycle.
    Beth Ann Nichols, The Arizona Republic, 14 Jan. 2021
  • The effects of the chemotherapy had caused other problems, though.
    Washington Post, 8 June 2021
  • 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
  • Her doctor told her not to get the vaccine because of her chemotherapy.
    Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 10 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Pelan lost her hair during chemotherapy and can be seen lying in a hospital bed.
    Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 July 2025
  • The doctor reveals a bad prognosis—Jamie has a critical case of pneumonia, as the chemotherapy has weakened his immune system.
    Barry Levitt, Time, 1 Aug. 2025

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