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remission

[ri-mish-uhn] / rɪˈmɪʃ ən /




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At SinoUnited Hospital in Shanghai, Walters paid less than half that amount—and, on Aug. 18, learned that the treatment had succeeded in pushing his lymphoma into complete remission.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

This state of disease inactivity is known as remission.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

For the first time since beating his cancer into remission, radio play-by-play broadcaster Charley Steiner called a complete game for the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

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

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

Schaefer was released from a Bali jail on Tuesday morning after receiving a number of remissions for good behaviour.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2026

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

There are no remissions in the various antitoxins; there is no hope for you through hollow needles.

From The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure by Edward Hooker Dewey




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