How to Use chemotherapy in a Sentence
chemotherapy
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There was chemotherapy and all of the side effects that came with it.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2021
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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
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There is a chance — a good enough chance — that the chemotherapy will be effective.
—Eldiara Doucette, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
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But despite two rounds of chemotherapy, the cancer had spread to the other lung.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2023
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Each had 2½ years of chemotherapy with six months of overlap.
—Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
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The goal of chemotherapy is to kill the cancer cells while (barely) keeping the patient alive.
—Vijay Pande, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023
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If my lymph nodes were cancer-free, I’d be cleared to skip chemotherapy.
—Alexis Berger, SELF, 11 Apr. 2024
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Bulky IVs of high-dose chemotherapy pumped through my veins for nearly a year.
—Maria Yogoda, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2024
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With the chemotherapy now done, Yaneli will have to return to the hospital for the hip surgeries.
—Maya Miller, ProPublica, 30 Dec. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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After my first round of chemotherapy, my throat closed up.
—Rachel S. Hunt, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
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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
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The month-long cycle of heavy-duty chemotherapy did its job.
—Dom Amore, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
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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
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The celebrity chef has so far completed six weeks of chemotherapy, with many more to go.
—Lauren Huff, EW.com, 31 July 2024
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The effects of the chemotherapy had caused other problems, though.
—Washington Post, 8 June 2021
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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
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Her doctor told her not to get the vaccine because of her chemotherapy.
—Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 10 Sep. 2021
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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
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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
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Matt fought not just the cancer, but the effects of chemotherapy and other treatment.
—Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
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It’s one of the most important parts of the ALL chemotherapy regimen.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 29 Dec. 2022
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During the worst of his chemotherapy, Larsen shrunk his world down to its most basic elements: Just get through the night.
—Outside Online, 12 Aug. 2021
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Still, in the early going of eight chemotherapy treatments, there are rough days.
—Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2022
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After a couple of months, the chemotherapy couldn’t hold back the cancer anymore.
—Olivia Jordan Cornelius, Outside Online, 15 July 2024
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With standard care — surgery and chemotherapy in most cases — about three-quarters of patients can expect to live at least five years after their diagnosis, according to the American Cancer Society.
—Erika Edwards, NBC news, 3 June 2025
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After completing surgery and chemotherapy, nearly one-third of people with high-risk colon cancer may eventually experience recurrence of their disease.
—Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 3 June 2025
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