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remission

[ri-mish-uhn] / rɪˈmɪʃ ən /




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Published in Science, the findings may help explain why people with inflammatory bowel disease can experience sudden flare-ups even after reaching remission.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

No cause of death was provided, but the outlet reported that Dasafo had been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 2010 before going into remission later that year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

At SinoUnited Hospital in Shanghai, Walters paid less than half that amount—and, on Aug. 18, learned that the treatment had succeeded in pushing his lymphoma into complete remission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

For his next birthday, he is planning to be home in Auckland, with his cancer still in remission.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

As we hoped and prayed, Miss Riley’s disease went into remission.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

Indonesia's Ministry of Immigration and Corrections told the BBC that Bechi was released in August 2025 because of "sentence remissions granted to him in accordance with applicable regulations".

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

Adding a third treatment called CSF-1R blockade, which targets tumor associated macrophages, increased the number of complete remissions to five out of ten mice.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

Through his remissions, they pursued fertility treatments and rounds of IVF, but miscarried each time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Cromhout told Science that four children now have had ART-free remissions for longer than 6 months and one is out 29 months.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 7, 2024

His skin continues hot and dry without any observable remissions, with liquid stools and much flatulency and sickness; his water when observed was of a straw colour.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin




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