How to Use chemo in a Sentence

chemo

noun
  • That is the part that hit me the hardest — the idea of chemo.
    USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In the hospital, the chemo and cancer left the dancer shaky.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Nov. 2021
  • That's because the chemo is killing healthy cells along with the cancer ones.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 Aug. 2023
  • It's been a long slog of a year with chemo and treatments and losing my hair.
    Washington Post, 20 June 2021
  • Tom was in New York having three hours of chemo, his arm in an IV.
    NBC News, 24 Jan. 2021
  • The process starts with a patient putting on a tight frozen cap before chemo.
    Jamie Yuccas, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Has cannabis helped in your healing process with the chemo treatment?
    Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
  • As a result of the chemo, Janz also lost all his then pale-blond hair.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 June 2022
  • Back in the ’60s, Weigner points out, your cat wouldn’t have gotten chemo.
    Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
  • And his thick head of hair had proved impervious to the chemo.
    David Gilbert, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Over the next two years, my mother and I sat next to him through 21 rounds of chemo, but the cancer still spread to his bones.
    Jessica Granger, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2020
  • He was taken with a sense of optimism, which came and went as the chemo dragged on.
    Meagan Flynn, Washington Post, 3 June 2023
  • With a smile on his face, Carter eagerly rang the no-more-chemo bell as a crowd cheered him on.
    Ashley R. Williams, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Mill took her to every chemo treatment and held her hand.
    Sally Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
  • My hair started to grow back a few months after my last chemo.
    Jennifer Garam, Allure, 29 Dec. 2020
  • After the ninth round of chemo, scans showed Staley to be cancer free.
    Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
  • The tough teen withstood the chemo treatments and is in remission.
    Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2022
  • In this case, curable means six rounds of chemo, each round lasting five days.
    Andrea Stanley, Men's Health, 21 June 2023
  • The chemo treatment had weakened his immune system and the virus hit him hard.
    Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Josh failed one course of chemo and began a more targeted one.
    Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Had chemo on Wednesday and felt like hot garbage and haven’t really slept since.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021
  • And then, when my mom had cancer, Rosanna had to go out and score her weed on the street for her chemo, to help her nausea.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 3 July 2022
  • About a week into chemo, my shoulder-length hair began to fall out.
    Beth Dreher, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2022
  • But this round of chemo I wasn't totally stuck on the couch, miserable.
    Gabrielle Chung, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2021
  • Add to this the fact that chemo and other treatments for the disease further hurt the immune response.
    Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2021
  • In the fall, after finishing up her last round of chemo, the doctors told her the good news: There was no sign of cancer.
    Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Ruth had said her doctor had told her not to get the vaccine because of her chemo, Rodebush said.
    Elle Reeve, Samantha Guff and Deborah Brunswick, CNN, 9 Sep. 2021
  • On his back deck before his last chemo treatment, Cade said football has taught him a lot.
    Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Oct. 2020
  • Later begins when Lucille’s out of chemo and begs Negan to go on alone.
    Richard Rys, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2021
  • About a dozen years ago, when Odom was battling cancer, Hecker took her to a lot of her chemo treatments.
    Terry Scott Bertling, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2021

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