How to Use chemotherapy in a Sentence

chemotherapy

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• After a couple of months, the chemotherapy couldn’t hold back the cancer anymore.
  — Olivia Jordan Cornelius, Outside Online, 15 July 2024
• 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
• 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
• Cannon and Scott were presented with the option of chemotherapy as a course of treatment.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2022
• At that point, doctors must clear the patient’s marrow with intensive chemotherapy to make way for the new cells.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• The study found that the group who got the additional chemotherapy survived longer, on average.
  — Dr. Daniel A. Carnegie, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Another scar on his chest is from his chemotherapy port.
  — Kyle Newman, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• Shannen Doherty was at the start of another round of chemotherapy in the weeks before her death.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 14 July 2024
• Here's what to know about how chemotherapy works for lupus and other treatment options.
  — Ashley Abramson, Health, 31 Oct. 2023
• The first major advance in the treatment of aids was AZT, a drug that had originally been tested as a chemotherapy agent.
  — Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• There will still be some charges for things like chemotherapy infusion and lab fees, OHSU officials said.
  — oregonlive, 25 Feb. 2023
• For decades, chemotherapy and radiation were the go-to treatments for most cancers.
  — Jessica Van Egeren, Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2024
• The cheers of a sellout crowd at Toyota Stadium were replaced by the beeping of medical machines and the slow drips of his first round of chemotherapy.
  — Emily Olsen, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
• Her son Cy, though, agreed with her decision to decline chemotherapy.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2024
• This award-winning book comes recommended by Rachel Tavel, who watched her dad go through cancer and chemotherapy.
  — Kristin Canning, SELF, 16 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Sep 2024