How to Use immunotherapy in a Sentence

immunotherapy

noun
  • He’s been put on immunotherapy and scans have shown that the cancer is dying.
    — Shawn McFarland, courant.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • These forms of allergy immunotherapy can take about the same time to work.
    — Beth Krietsch, SELF, 20 Aug. 2019
  • And immunotherapy wasn't nearly as hard on her.
    — Nashville Tennessean, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The first immunotherapy treatments rocked him with two days of chills, fever and fatigue.
    — Matt Baker, New York Times, 4 May 2026
  • The immunotherapy trial will start a few weeks after her chemo.
    — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2021
  • The immunotherapy hits her four or five days after each treatment.
    — David Oliver, USA Today, 7 May 2025
  • Thanks to a new immunotherapy treatment, his cancer hasn't come back.
    — CBS News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Work on immunotherapy has become a major trend in biotech research in the past decade.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Cancer immunotherapy is extending life for many who would have died a decade ago.
    — David J. Skorton, STAT, 12 June 2026
  • His right kidney was removed, and he was treated with an immunotherapy drug.
    — Margaret Fleming, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2023
  • To nip cedar fever at the source, immunotherapy is the more effective option.
    — Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The immunotherapy drugs did not help people with fewer tumor gene flaws.
    — Marilynn Marchione, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The effects of the immunotherapy lasted for seven-and-a-half months.
    — David Jensen, sacbee, 20 July 2017
  • The trial is one of the first to use immunotherapy in earlier stages of cancer.
    — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Here’s what to know about the immunotherapy treatment that extended his life.
    — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Allergy shots, for allergies such as pollen or bee stings, are a form of immunotherapy.
    — Amber Dance, Washington Post, 12 May 2018
  • Since immunotherapy came into wide use about six years ago, cancer research has boomed and new treatments have emerged.
    — Maria Streshinsky, Wired, 12 June 2020
  • Humphrey remains on immunotherapy with few side effects.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2025
  • My mother in Britain, who has received immunotherapy for lung cancer for the past two years, was on this list.
    — Libby Watson, The New Republic, 13 May 2020
  • This rate doubles to 2 in 10 when a second immunotherapy is added.
    — Markham Heid, Time, 1 Nov. 2022
  • But when the immunotherapy isn’t effective, the patients are left with few options.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The greatest excitement is reserved for immunotherapy, a new approach that has emerged in the past few years.
    — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
  • My hope is that Zytiga will keep me alive long enough to take advantage of coming immunotherapies.
    — WSJ, 30 Sep. 2018
  • By doing this, immunotherapy boosts the power of the body’s own immune system to fight against tumors.
    — Astrazeneca, USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
  • Maybe there’ll be a fifth or sixth thing, but there’ll be at least those four and immunotherapy will be critically important.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 May 2021
  • This is the first time, however, that immunotherapy has helped a patient with metastatic breast cancer.
    — Amanda MacMillan, Health.com, 8 June 2018
  • The oral immunotherapy drug has been approved for patients between the ages of 4 and 17.
    — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 10 Feb. 2020
  • One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the (jaw-dropping) advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The doses aligned with their immunotherapy treatments.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC news, 1 June 2026
  • One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more.
    — Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2025

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