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chemo Definition

chemo ()

noun

Informal chemotherapy

chemo Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • undergo: Now, still undergoing chemo, my walking is soo limited.
  • start: Or does mom in fact need this break between surgery and starting chemo?
  • need: Tony said: " I have been told that I don't need any chemo or radiotherapy.
  • have: Hmmm, I think I'd have the chemo.
  • finish: I have finished the chemo now, took last tablets on tuesday.
  • do: Very advanced breast cancer, about to do chemo, needs a lot of support.

Preposition: at

  • moment: My father is receiving chemo at the moment but they can not operate on the liver as it is on both sides.

Adjective modifier

  • intraperitoneal: He had the cytoreductive surgery with the heated intraperitoneal chemo by Dr. Sugarbaker 8/01 and has been in remission until 4/05.
  • heated: I had cytoreductive surgery and heated chemo in July 2002.
  • systemic: We will soon go back to the oncologist to determine they best time to start systemic chemo.
  • original: A chemo-induced gene mutation can happen when the original chemo received does not work.
  • next: My next chemo is on the 7th, all being well.
  • intensive: She got through this intensive chemo really well and with such fighting spirit, and got the all clear soon after.

Modifies a noun

  • treatment: Since my chemo treatment I'm having terrible arthritic pain which the nurse said was perhaps a reaction to chemo drugs.
  • drug: Once all the chemo drugs are ready I'm moved to the Cool Cap machine.
  • agent: Having some foreknowledge of a given chemo agent 's expected result before its administration would benefit the individual patient.
  • session: Also my next chemo session is back to a Friday, 4th October is my next important date.
  • suite: Then I go back to the bone tumor clinic, then back across to the chemo suite for my chemo.
  • rad: How have you girls managed sexually after chemo rad?

Noun used with modifier

  • post: Top 26 JULY 2002 Ashford Hospital - Middlesex Blood test day - post chemo.