How to Use chemotherapy in a Sentence

chemotherapy

noun
  • At the same time, Janz had to undergo chemotherapy to destroy the rest of the faulty cells.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 27 June 2022
  • 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 month-long cycle of heavy-duty chemotherapy did its job.
    Dom Amore, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Robin Roberts appeared in the episode that discussed the impact of chemotherapy on Audrey and her doll, Hannah.
    Karen Idelson, Variety, 15 June 2022
  • 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
  • The 83-year-old has undergone multiple melanoma surgeries and six months of chemotherapy for lymphoma over the last year.
    Beth Harris, Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2022
  • Isabella Strahan is showing off her hair growth since finishing chemotherapy for her brain tumor.
    Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Her health battle, which included her claiming to have been worn down by months of chemotherapy and radiation, was documented on a blog and her Instagram account @healing_belle.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024

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