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remission

[ri-mish-uhn] / rɪˈmɪʃ ən /




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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

Doctors were able to treat the condition and she spent six years in remission.

From BBC Aug. 8, 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

“Some of us are in remission or with no evidence of disease,” Clough testified at a hearing on the bill.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 18, 2026

As for my premonitions, they seem to be in remission, for the moment anyway.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx

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

Mental treatment for it naturally divides itself into three periods: that of prophylaxis, that of the early stage and that of the severer stage with remissions.

From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh




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