How to Use immunotherapy in a Sentence

immunotherapy

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  • The oral immunotherapy drug has been approved for patients between the ages of 4 and 17.
    — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 10 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • The trial is one of the first to use immunotherapy in earlier stages of cancer.
    — Anna Kuchment, Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Cancer immunotherapies at large have been some of the most sought-after treatments in all of the life sciences.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Brown opted for immunotherapy, did not coach in 2020 and then joined the UW staff to replace John Settle.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2022
  • The early stage immunotherapy made her good, and that was something.
    — Nikki Campo, Washington Post, 7 May 2020
  • Work on immunotherapy has become a major trend in biotech research in the past decade.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Feb. 2020
  • One of the issues the M.I.T. team focused on involved the location in the body where vaccines and immunotherapies end up.
    — Jaimie Seaton, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The immunotherapy trial will start a few weeks after her chemo.
    — Diane Bell Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2021
  • This rate doubles to 2 in 10 when a second immunotherapy is added.
    — Markham Heid, Time, 1 Nov. 2022
  • The other drug used in the study, pembrolizumab, launched a new era of immunotherapy treatments when it was approved in 2014.
    — Alice Park, TIME, 3 June 2024
  • And that could make a new class of cancer drugs, called CAR-T immunotherapy, more effective.
    — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The success of the trial prompted Wales to approve immunotherapy for the treatment of this type of rectal cancer in 2023.
    — Kelly Mickle, TIME, 2 May 2024
  • Thanks to a new immunotherapy treatment, his cancer hasn't come back.
    — CBS News, 25 Mar. 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
  • Here’s what to know about the immunotherapy treatment that extended his life.
    — Vanessa Etienne, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Based on the presence of telltale biomarkers in the breath, the device is able to recommend whether immunotherapy is a good option or not.
    — Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2019
  • If control is achieved, the immunotherapy drug Imfinzi (durvalumab) may be used for up to a year to keep the tumor stable.
    — Doru Paul, Verywell Health, 22 Apr. 2023
  • More than 40% of lung cancers showed a high TMB, and the patients with those tumors, on average, did much better on the immunotherapy.
    — Ken Garber, Science | AAAS, 27 June 2018
  • But when the immunotherapy isn’t effective, the patients are left with few options.
    — Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Brown opted for immunotherapy, did not coach in 2020 and then joined the Wisconsin staff to replace John Settle.
    — Jeff Potrykus, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
  • My hope is that Zytiga will keep me alive long enough to take advantage of coming immunotherapies.
    — WSJ, 30 Sep. 2018
  • If that isn’t sufficient, the next step is immunotherapy—in the form of allergy shots or under the tongue exposure.
    — Amy Marturana Winderl, SELF, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Cullen said the center already is among the first in the region to offer some immunotherapy treatments that will only expand.
    — Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2022
  • Finding ways to supercharge the immune system to continue the fight is the main goal of immunotherapy.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 20 Sep. 2024
  • His right kidney was removed, and he was treated with an immunotherapy drug.
    — Margaret Fleming, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The immunotherapy drugs did not help people with fewer tumor gene flaws.
    — Marilynn Marchione, chicagotribune.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Looking ahead Researchers are still trying to get immunotherapies to work for more melanoma patients and more people with other types of cancers.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024

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