How to Use chemotherapy in a Sentence

chemotherapy

noun
  • There was chemotherapy and all of the side effects that came with it.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • His wife has breast cancer and is about to restart chemotherapy.
    — New York Times, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Pati, a chemotherapy nurse at the time, help guide her through treatment.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Each had 2½ years of chemotherapy with six months of overlap.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • They are then put back in after rounds of chemotherapy to kill off the cancer cells.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026
  • She is scheduled for surgery soon and then will begin chemotherapy.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Nov. 2021
  • If my lymph nodes were cancer-free, I’d be cleared to skip chemotherapy.
    — Alexis Berger, SELF, 11 Apr. 2024
  • There is a chance — a good enough chance — that the chemotherapy will be effective.
    — Eldiara Doucette, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Paul had nine rounds of chemotherapy in late 2020.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Treatment called for 15 rounds of chemotherapy over three months.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Feb. 2021
  • Her doctor told her not to get the vaccine because of her chemotherapy.
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 10 Sep. 2021
  • The celebrity chef has so far completed six weeks of chemotherapy, with many more to go.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 31 July 2024
  • John had one boy with the coronavirus who had also just been through chemotherapy.
    — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Six others received a small amount of chemotherapy to make space for the new T cells.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • In the weeks before her death, her mother had a full course of chemotherapy and was fatigued.
    — Lola Fadulu, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • But despite two rounds of chemotherapy, the cancer had spread to the other lung.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2023
  • He is being treated with a single-use chemotherapy drug and oral steroids, the zoo said.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Fouts has been on the same low-dose chemotherapy drug Eribulin for nearly six years.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Bulky IVs of high-dose chemotherapy pumped through my veins for nearly a year.
    — Maria Yagoda, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2024
  • Bates underwent surgery and nine months of chemotherapy to treat the cancer.
    — Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Still, in the early going of eight chemotherapy treatments, there are rough days.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 15 Mar. 2022
  • There are all kinds of ways of being in this world, and one of them is living while going through chemotherapy.
    — Anna Holmes, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Each time a treatment didn't work, a new chemotherapy would become available.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 4 Mar. 2026
  • When Weiss started chemotherapy, things seemed to be going well.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Fox underwent 12 rounds of chemotherapy for nine hours a day.
    — Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Patients also are given chemotherapy to clear space in their bone marrow for the new cells.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The effects of the chemotherapy had caused other problems, though.
    — Washington Post, 8 June 2021
  • It can be used as an alternative to or in tandem with chemotherapy.
    — Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
  • In that, your own stem cells are used and replanted with intense chemotherapy in the middle of the process.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The goal of chemotherapy is to kill the cancer cells while (barely) keeping the patient alive.
    — Vijay Pande, WSJ, 27 Dec. 2023

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