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chemotherapy

[kee-moh-ther-uh-pee, kem-oh-] / ˌki moʊˈθɛr ə pi, ˌkɛm oʊ- /


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The question now is whether Pope Leo XIV will need additional treatment such as chemotherapy or radiation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The Edinburgh-born swimmer underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy to treat the tumours, but surgery to remove them was found to be impossible.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Antonia lost her hair when she underwent chemotherapy following a bone marrow transplant, so she knows what it is like to be "completely bald".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Producing engineered immune cells directly inside the body, an approach known as in vivo manufacturing, could potentially remove the need for this preparatory chemotherapy as well.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Mom hadn’t let me or Charlie see Nana when she was going through chemotherapy, and we didn’t talk about it after, either, but the specter of death had haunted us for months.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

"When I failed the chemotherapies that were on the market, no one wanted me in their clinical trials," she said at the 2020 Republican National Convention.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

The deal will expand Gilead’s capabilities in antibody-drug conjugates, or ADCs, which deliver powerful chemotherapies to cancerous cells without harming nearby cells.

From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026

Working with Valerie Kickhoefer in Rome’s lab, the group then found that the drug-resistant cancer cells generated many more vaults than nonresistant ones, suggesting the structures might sequester or expel chemotherapies.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 6, 2024

Most chemotherapies work by disrupting this DNA replication machinery in rapidly dividing tumor cells.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024

We started to have steroids, we started to have the wide availability of antibiotics, we started to have effective chemotherapies, we started to have drugs which were really effective in various mental health issues.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023




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