chemon.
/ˈkiːməʊ/, U.S. /ˈkimoʊ/ colloquial.
Chemotherapy (as a treatment for cancer). Frequently attributive.
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1977 Cumberland (Maryland) Evening Times 27 July 36/1 The dates of the National at Clemson, S.C...were between his ‘chemo’ treatments.
1980 P. K. Dick in Stellar Sci. Fiction Stories No. 5. 72 Commodity Central provided Rybus with two wigs, since, due to the chemo, her hair had been systematically killed.
1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 264 Plus there's all sorts of mop-up tricks you can do with radioactive implants and chemo.
2005 Globe & Mail 3 Aug. a15/6 The addition of the drug rituximab increased two-year survival by more than 50 per cent, compared with using only the standard mix of four chemo drugs.
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chemo brain n. memory loss and other difficulties with the functioning of the brain resulting from chemotherapy treatment.
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1991 San Francisco Chron. 25 Oct. b3 In the groups, the women also learn about such things as ‘chemo-brain’. Chemotherapy so disorganizes your mind, they say, that it's amazing they can even remember the jokes.
2007 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 107 19/3 After chemotherapy, many people report feeling confused, forgetful, and unable to concentrate, a condition commonly referred to as ‘chemo-brain’.
2020 @warriormegsie 10 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 11 Nov. 2020) Chemo brain is REAL and more detrimental than I thought it would be. It has taken me four years to be able to multitask again.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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