Sentence examples for a remission for from inspiring English sources
Although apparently schooled by his aides to appear humble and contrite today, Mr. Kohl, 69, bristled visibly when a journalist asked if he was trying to buy an "indulgence" -- a remission for past sins -- through his fund-raising drive.
Together, these and other strategies have contributed to a prolongation of progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in myeloma patients, and an increasing proportion are able to sustain a remission for many years.
Hospitalization including surgery is necessary if the treatment still does not lead to a remission for patients.
Our case showed fortuitously that a standard daunorubicin/cytarabine regimen was highly effective in inducing a remission for disseminated LCH, an observation that requires further validation.
The Roman Catholic Church is celebrating a Holy Year, or Jubilee, when pilgrims from all over the world are summoned to Rome to seek forgiveness and receive an indulgence, a remission of punishment for sins.
Since 1300, the year Pope Boniface VIII first summoned the faithful to Rome because the crusades had made travel to the Holy Land too risky, pilgrims have been rewarded with a plenary indulgence, a remission of punishment for sins.
To the question "Once on the trial, how do you see your disease progressing?", ten of the patients mentioned hoping for the tumor to shrink, for a remission, or for some extension of life.
But after a round of what her doctor called "industrial-strength chemo," which made her very ill for two months, she went into a total remission for a year.
Eight of the 33 evaluable patients (24%) achieved a partial remission for a median of 7.5 months (3-11+).
Immunotherapy for stage IV melanoma using a DC/irradiated tumour vaccine has demonstrated a complete remission of disease in 3 out of 46 patients and a partial remission for an additional 3 patients [ 106].
It wasn't a cure, only a remission; but for Farber it was the beginning of a dream of cures, of what one researcher called "a penicillin for cancer".
