chemotherapy
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Neill, 78, said in a weekend interview he had lived with the blood cancer for about five years but his chemotherapy treatment eventually stopped working.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
Doctors told the family the tumour could not be surgically removed and Sienna has now begun an 18-month course of chemotherapy.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
All of the women underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy, a treatment given before surgery to shrink tumors and make them easier to remove.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
The path to chemotherapy began with a 1943 wartime disaster in Bari, Italy, where sailors exposed to mustard gas showed severely depleted white blood cell counts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
The man who catches a meningococcus is in considerably less danger for his life, even without chemotherapy, than meningococci with the bad luck to catch a man.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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iatr (healing); therap (medical treatment)
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