How to Use radiation therapy in a Sentence

radiation therapy

noun

• So most patients get weeks to months of radiation therapy five days a week for three to eight, nine weeks.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• Ginsburg underwent three weeks of radiation therapy and as part of her treatment had a bile duct stent placed, the court said.
  — Jessica Gresko and Marilynn Marchione, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• At the time, her team said the star would be completing photon radiation therapy.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022
• Tuesday marked his first day of ten rounds of radiation therapy.
  — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2020
• Standard treatment in the United States is surgery of the palate, followed by radiation therapy.
  — Michele Cohen Marill, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2019
• The cancer center, planned for a long strip of land between Fourth and Fifth avenues, will bring radiation therapy to the Mercy medical campus for the first time.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2019
• Compared with the discomfort of colon surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy for colon cancer, colonoscopy prep is a piece of cake.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2021
• And a lot of services like radiation therapy will be available.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Sep. 2021
• The fact that the governor’s cancer was found early is going to put her in a very good, very high percentage of cure with stage one lung cancer with this form of radiation therapy.
  — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
• This is it’ Murry left prison only for appointments to take round after round of chemo and radiation therapy.
  — Max Blau, ajc, 18 Mar. 2020
• The singer is now having radiation therapy and chemotherapy treatment to try to prolong his life.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• And they are used in a wide range of areas from radiation therapy for cancer to treating wastewater and cleaning flue gases from power plants.
  — Andrea Willige, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
• Whatever that scan reveals, McCool and his doctor both say the radiation therapy is not a cure.
  — Madeline McGee, Anchorage Daily News, 15 July 2019
• Hale went on to endure five rounds of chemotherapy and 20 sessions of radiation therapy.
  — Joelle Goldstein, PEOPLE.com, 2 Nov. 2021
• Boris underwent 13 sessions of radiation therapy in a month and, to prevent brain damage, cannot be given any more.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• In addition, women who had radiation therapy to the chest or breast area before age 30 are also at higher risk.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2019
• There is no known cure for ocular melanoma, although radiation therapy and surgery can help prolong the length and quality of life, according to Orloff.
  — Mark Lieber, CNN, 1 May 2018
• My urologist referred me for radiation therapy, to be followed by Lupron every six months for two years.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2022
• Russell hasn’t been able to get a new caregiver since November 2020, the same month she was supposed to begin radiation therapy.
  — USA Today, 1 Nov. 2021
• Advances in radiation therapy have led to a higher cure rate and a better quality of life both during and after treatment.
  — Shayne Benowitz, miamiherald, 24 May 2018
• Chemotherapy and radiation therapy work to halt the spread of any remaining cancer cells.
  — Trihealth, Cincinnati.com, 4 June 2019
• There have been situations where there have been more aggressive forms and the patients have had to do chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
  — Naseem S. Miller, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• When cancer is confined to the prostate, surgery plus radiation therapy is standard treatment for tumors deemed to be aggressive.
  — NBC News, 3 June 2021
• More:UW Health to use new device that sits cancer patients upright for radiation therapy.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022
• Chemotherapy and radiation therapy may also be part of treatment if cancer has spread throughout the body.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 29 Nov. 2021
• Then came 30 days of radiation therapy followed by another surgery to implant two metal plates, 36 screws and part of another hip.
  — Danielle Lerner, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2018
• Two years earlier, a Chechen rebel claimed to have planted in a Moscow park a bomb comprising dynamite and caesium-137 — which can be used in cancer radiation therapy.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2022
• While there’s no cure, doctors can shrink tumors in the eye with radiation therapy or remove them surgically.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 1 May 2018
• After that, DePaoli will undergo six more rounds of chemotherapy and then two weeks of lung radiation therapy.
  — oregonlive, 1 Oct. 2021
• Given that around 85 percent of dogs with oral cancer will develop a new tumor within a year of radiation therapy, the results were striking.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 5 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024