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remission

[ri-mish-uhn] / rɪˈmɪʃ ən /




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For the first time since beating his cancer into remission, radio play-by-play broadcaster Charley Steiner called a complete game for the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

In Sunny Dancer, Ramsey plays Ivy, a young female cancer survivor in remission who reluctantly heads to a "chemo camp" where she finds an unexpected group of friends and has a summer that changes her.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

A third of patients whose cancer worsened on other immunotherapies experienced remission on RP1, with cancers vanishing in one of six.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

"I am in remission and the message I want to spread it is possible to live with cancer," Lynette said.

From BBC Jul. 28, 2026

I was surprised that Augustus was Wish- eligible, what with being still in school and a year into remission.

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

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

She added: "As the cost-of-living crisis continues and families are struggling more, we are finding that more are needing to access these remissions, which means our costs are going up."

From BBC Apr. 24, 2024

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

There are no remissions in the various antitoxins; there is no hope for you through hollow needles.

From The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure by Edward Hooker Dewey




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