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chemotherapy

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


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The results come days after RevMed reported that daraxonrasib, its RAS-targeting pill, nearly doubled overall survival for people with advanced pancreatic cancer compared with chemotherapy in a larger, later-stage trial.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

This could potentially make for more efficient and accessible cancer treatments without needing chemotherapy.

From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026

But the usual course of treatment is rounds of chemotherapy and radiation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

Revolution Medicines reported last week that patients who took its small molecule pill daraxonrasib lived a median of 13.2 months, compared to 6.7 months for those who received chemotherapy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

A girl named Rose says, “Well, because of her cells the medical field had major breakthroughs, like the polio vaccine, chemotherapy, and the creation of drugs that treat leukemia, influenza, and Parkinson’s disease.”

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan




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