chemotherapy
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During complex cancer treatments — such as chemotherapy infusions or imaging — patients may spend several hours in hospital.
From MarketWatch • May 1, 2026
Neill, 78, said in a weekend interview he had lived with the blood cancer for about five years but his chemotherapy treatment eventually stopped working.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
"With supplementation, levels increased throughout chemotherapy treatment, which reinforces a possible contribution to the patients' recovery," Carvalho-Pessoa told Agência FAPESP.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
The path to chemotherapy began with a 1943 wartime disaster in Bari, Italy, where sailors exposed to mustard gas showed severely depleted white blood cell counts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
This is the genuinely decisive technology of modern medicine, exemplified best by modern methods for immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, and the childhood virus diseases, and the contemporary use of antibiotics and chemotherapy for bacterial infections.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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iatr (healing); therap (medical treatment)
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