chemotherapy
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Faced with the prospect of losing it through chemotherapy, she asked her brother to shave it off for her.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
About 30-40% of cancers which do not respond to chemotherapy have these markings.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
It has fewer side-effects, women are able to keep their hair and it is given by a drip every three weeks, instead of weekly with conventional chemotherapy.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
Competition in the market for drugs to treat ovarian cancer resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy is heating up, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
They used HeLa to test the effects of steroids, chemotherapy drugs, hormones, vitamins, and environmental stress; they infected them with tuberculosis, salmonella, and the bacterium that causes vaginitis.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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iatr (healing); therap (medical treatment)
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