How to Use in remission in a Sentence

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  • Wendy Williams shared the news on her show in 2006, by which time the cancer was in remission.
    — Adam England, People.com, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The tough teen withstood the chemo treatments and is in remission.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 9 Sep. 2022
  • After a year, the results were the same in the placebo group and increased to 32% in remission in the treatment group.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Sena had been through four bouts of cancer, which was then in remission.
    — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Davis is in remission, works out six days a week, and helps his dad coach a high school basketball team.
    — Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 17 May 2023
  • The second event was the return of my mother’s breast cancer, in remission for more than a decade and now in her bones.
    — Sam Lipsyte, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
  • None of the other 50 dogs in the trial stayed in remission nearly as long as Jellybean.
    — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Last year, at the age of 17, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, but is now in remission.
    — Allyson Portee, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2024
  • One woman, in her fifties and in remission from cancer, fixed a piercing gaze on me.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
  • They’re given to those in remission with a high risk of relapse, Knutson said.
    — Byerin Prater, Fortune Well, 26 June 2023
  • They’re given to those in remission with a high risk of relapse, Knutson says.
    — Erin Prater, Fortune, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Gregg, who was diagnosed with Stage III colon cancer in 2018, had been in remission for two years.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Bragg himself is in remission from cancer, and in his 60s is living in the basement of his mother’s house.
    — David Holahan, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2021
  • By 2017, Lou is in remission and their team is headed to the Super Bowl, which sparks the plan — not nearly as wild or crazy as the film presumes — for the four of them to attend.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Jan. 2023
  • No one could promise my cancer would stay away in remission.
    — Eldiara Doucette, People.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Still, happy news came in June 2023, when Stephen’s doctor said his cancer was in remission.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Guests may be in remission from cancer, seeking to de-stress, or simply trying to lose weight.
    — Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Spoiler alert: Simon, at film’s end, is in remission and is healing.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2023
  • After months of treatment, Gray was declared in remission on May 6, but her journey was still far from over.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2022
  • After almost a year in remission, Daugherty found out Oct. 18 that his cancer had come back for the fourth time.
    — Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Her lupus is in remission, blood pressure is good, the kidney is working like it’s supposed to.
    — Lucy Feldman, TIME, 29 May 2024
  • The cancer, in remission for seven years, had returned.
    — Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 29 May 2022
  • Two family members have passed away and two are in remission.
    — Yessenia Funes, Vox, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Now in remission, Shuler checks in with her physician once a year to make sure that the cancer that took away her ability to bear children doesn’t return.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The two remain in remission more than 10 years after the infusion, the researchers noted.
    — Jacqueline Howard and Carma Hassan, CNN, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Kobelja had his fourth heart transplant last year and Givens is in remission from lymphoma.
    — Jan Crawford, CBS News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Stacy Courtnay, 43, has been in remission for the last 10 years, but finding the right medication took some time.
    — Natasha Lavender, SELF, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Jane Fonda, the actress and activist whose career spans back to the 1960s, announced Thursday that her cancer is in remission.
    — Erin Pflaumer, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Later that summer, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was in remission by that fall.
    — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 29 June 2023
  • The teen, who has been in remission since 2013, also continues to go to checkups with an oncologist once a year.
    — Brian Brant, Peoplemag, 15 Nov. 2023

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