chemotherapy
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After the removal of a cancerous salivary gland tumor, Wing’s oncologist recommended chemotherapy and radiation.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
The findings may help explain why some tumors resist chemotherapy and radiation.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
Unlike chemotherapy, which kills healthy and cancerous cells alike, these medicines essentially empower patients’ immune systems to correctly recognize and attack tumors.
From Salon • May 15, 2026
She announced in March 2024 that she had been diganosed with cancer, without revealing which type and that she had begun chemotherapy.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
The man who catches a meningococcus is in considerably less danger for his life, even without chemotherapy, than meningococci with the bad luck to catch a man.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing chemotherapy
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iatr (healing); therap (medical treatment)
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