"Standard treatment" refers to the usual or most common method of medical care that doctors recommend for a particular health condition. It is the established approach that has been proven effective through research and experience.
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It's increasingly being offered along with
standard treatment for a wide range of medical conditions and situations....
Half were given the drug for two years along with
standard treatment of chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, and surgery.
We help people living with regular symptoms of severe or chronic health conditions who have exhausted available options from
current standard treatments.
While standard treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation and hormone therapy can be successful with early detection, but the side effects are often uncomfortable or painful.
First of all, workers need to examine if, with due regard for professional
standards treatment planning is possible, taking the discrepancies into account.
We may ask why certain tests weren't conducted, why certain symptoms were ignored or missed, or
why standard treatment protocols weren't followed.
Standard treatment usually involves topical creams, face washes, antibiotics, birth control pills for women and, sometimes, even stronger medication with the potential for adverse side effects.
Treatment with radioactive iodine is the current
gold standard treatment where the radioactive iodine concentrates and destroys some of the thyroid tissue.
One of the main objectives of the intervention is to embed conversations about family life
into standard treatment.
Our patients have access to many innovative Phase 1 Clinical Trials, providing hope for many refractory or relapsing patients for whom
standard treatment options have failed.
Although it remained controversial, Coley's cancer vaccine was widely used until radiation and chemotherapy
became standard treatment in the 1940s.
In fact, CAM is considered
standard treatment in many European countries (including Germany, which regulates herbs, and France, where hospitals widely use acupuncture), so sometimes alternative treatments new to the States have already been researched and used for years abroad.
For patients with stage II and III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) unable to
receive standard treatments of surgery or chemoradiation (CRT), hypofractionated radiation therapy (RT) results in similar overall survival (OS) and progression - free survival (PFS) rates, limited severe side effects and shorter treatment times when compared to conventional RT, according to research presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
In elderly cancer patients like my father and aunt, who suffer from a variety of chronic health problems, physicians often modify
standard treatment regimens — perhaps using two chemotherapy drugs instead of three or lowering standard dosages — in the hope that the revised treatment will work well enough.
The data «provide a foundation» for using anti-PD-1 drugs
as standard treatment for melanoma patients, he added.
Women with metastasis to the sentinel lymph node underwent full groin node dissection and were then followed
by standard treatment protocols.
Areas of focus include: understanding how tumour - reactive T cells and B cells promote patient survival in cancer; defining the effects of
standard treatments on tumor immunity; and using genomic approaches to identify novel tumour mutations that can serve as target antigens for immunotherapy.
Research has found that physicians who treat osteoarthritis patients are usually not
using standard treatment guidelines which are based on the latest medical evidence.
«Further research is needed,» adds Dr. Moysich, «on the role of daily, long - term use of aspirin and acetaminophen as both cervical cancer chemopreventive agents and enhancement to
standard treatment strategies post-diagnosis.»
Currently,
standard treatments consist of receiving FIX made in animal cells (called recombinant), which is expensive to manufacture, must be administered several times per week and can trigger the development of immune antibodies, rendering it less effective over time.
A very practical tip which I always tell to doctors who want to find the way to increase their legal safety against the possible claims from patients is to carefully record all decisions on treatment in the patient's medical documentation; and in case of any doubtful, risky or
not standard treatment which is to be initiated, a physician should always get a written declaration of consent from a patient.
Valencia Porter, M.D., MPH, FACN, director of integrative medicine at the Chopra Center, told me, «When
standard treatments don't work, it's time to look deeper, for underlying problems, such as inflammation, nutritional deficiencies, hormonal imbalances, toxicity — or emotional turmoil.»
Standard treatment includes providing plenty of fluids and light therapy (when a baby spends time under a special blue - colored light).
Research led by scientists at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute showed the drug and a potentiating agent lengthened the lives of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer, all of whom had exhausted
available standard treatments.
«iCCA is resistant to
standard treatments like chemotherapy and radiation,» said Josep Maria Llovet, MD, Director of the Liver Cancer Program, Division of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and contributing author.
Every year, nearly 2,000 people in Switzerland are diagnosed with lymphoma, a disease that can be very aggressive,
resisting standard treatments with chemotherapeutic drugs.
«This finding that Gleevec response trumps the patient's features at diagnosis is critically important, because with the
previous standard treatment such a response was not protective from relapse.
Though standard treatment with ribavirin and interferon, as well as newer protease inhibitors might clear infection in certain people, a considerable amount of individuals still don't respond to these treatments.
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