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chemotherapy

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


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They will be edited and in six months he will have chemotherapy before his edited cells are returned to him.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Her edited stem cells were returned to her last December, following chemotherapy, and she has now recovered well.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Claire underwent radiation and chemotherapy treatments to kill the malignant cells in his body, but the cancer returned again in 2017.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Participants received standard chemotherapy either alone or in combination with paricalcitol, a vitamin D analog already approved by the FDA for other medical uses.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

As far as we knew, she was getting good medical care, and the chemotherapy seemed to be working.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

"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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