Sentences with phrase «[during the chemotherapy»

«We remain committed to advancing our IDO pathway inhibitor indoximod, which continues to generate exciting data in combination with anti-PD-1 agents, cancer vaccines, and chemotherapy in multiple cancer types including melanoma, prostate cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, and pancreatic cancer.»

Instead of being injected into the bloodstream and exposed to the rest of the body's tissue — with all the unpleasant side effects, as is the case with chemotherapy — these agents only target cancer cells.

This is our chemotherapy,»» Cuban continued, still quoting his friend.

Billionaire businessman Mark Cuban called President Donald Trump «s time in office so far «political chemotherapy,» suggesting that supporters of the President knowingly voted for a «poisonous» leader in hopes of shaking up America's political system.

Others have found that bacteria within the tumors themselves can influence the effectiveness of traditional chemotherapy as well.

The bottom line is that Gates gives this book his most enthusiastic endorsement, concluding: «I don't know how Kalanithi found the physical strength to write this book while he was so debilitated by the disease and then potent chemotherapy.

Belvin was given heavy doses of chemotherapy — in 2004 that was almost all there was to offer.

In a 564 - person trial, patients whose ovarian cancer recurred (and who had already started treatment with chemotherapy) given Rubraca, part of a new class of cancer drugs called «PARP» inhibitors, lived, on median, for double the amount of time without their disease getting even worse compared with those given a placebo.

Cancer patients, especially those on chemotherapy, can really benefit from a personal chef who knows how to make food that's especially appealing when chemotherapy drugs make food unappealing but when it is important to maintain nutrition for strength and the best health possible.

Immunotherapy differs from more traditional cancer treatments, such as surgery (cutting malignant cells out of the body), chemotherapy and radiation (poisoning the deadly mutants), and even the newer, more precise molecular drugs that attempt to jam the protein signals that tell tumor cells to keep dividing and conquering.

«My family was shocked by how many cancer patients had difficulty getting to their chemotherapy treatments.»

It was a year of chemotherapy and surgery.

That leaves Merck largely free of competitors in the near - term in its quest to become a go - to, first - line option for lung cancer patients in combination with chemotherapy (Merck recently surprised investors with an early FDA filing for that combination).

Currently in the U.K., he will go back to Privateer's headquarters in Seattle, then visit Tilray's 60,000 - square foot facilities in British Columbia, Canada, then to Australia, where Tilray has an import license to send marijuana for a clinical trial with a chemotherapy - induced nausea and vomiting study with the University of Sydney, the government of New South Wales and the country's largest cancer hospital.

«I hope that someday all of you on the advisory committee can tell your families for generations that you were part of the process that ended the use of toxic treatments like chemotherapy and radiation as standard treatment, and turned blood cancers into a treatable disease that even after relapse most people survive.»

Indeed, he continued working from a room at the Stanford University Medical Center while receiving chemotherapy.

I discovered kids losing their hair to chemotherapy often wanted to wear headbands instead of wigs or hats.

Those drugs run the gamut from temperature - sensitive chemotherapy agents to aspirin.

Her course of radiation may be months and if she needs chemotherapy it'll be much longer.

But now, Merck is going in for the kill, pushing a combination therapy of Keytruda and chemotherapy that would give the company a far wider reach into the massive lung cancer market.

Other traditional treatments, such as chemotherapy or surgery, act more like sledgehammers.

As he completed his surgery, which resulted in the removal of 22 lymph nodes, and began chemotherapy and radiation in June, the relentless sickness began.

He refused morphine for his pain, and even kept working on his business, picking up his cell phone and laptop while receiving chemotherapy in the hospital, to check in with his staff.

The same month that Cascade filed its lawsuit, Frayne moved from Portland to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he began chemotherapy.

«The way that a chemotherapy schedule works,» Frayne says, «you get a week where you're really sick and you have a week off and then you have another week where you're really sick.

It's something drug researchers have started looking into, to see if there could be a therapy that prevents the neurological damage that happens with chemotherapy.

That's not just because of Opdivo's failure — last month, Keytruda was shown to be better than standard chemotherapy in untreated advanced lung cancer patients with high levels of the PD - L1 protein, both stopping cancer progression and extending patients» lives.

After one of the company's co-founders, Colin Hill, underwent chemotherapy treatment and identified a need for continuous temperature monitoring, the team worked to create a technology solution.

Merck's cancer immunotherapy Keytruda is one of the pharma giant's rising stars, especially in the wake of evidence that the therapy had a survival benefit over standard chemotherapy in advanced lung cancer patients.

Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells by targeting fast - dividing cells, and in most cases, kills off some healthy cells along the way, including nerve cells in the brain.

CNN reports that he's using the aircraft to bring Puerto Rican cancer patients to the mainland U.S. for chemotherapy.

Treatment consists of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment, all of which take a brutal toll on the body.

«While we are disappointed CheckMate - 026 did not meet its primary endpoint in this broad patient population, we remain committed to improving patient outcomes through our comprehensive development program, including the ongoing Phase III CheckMate - 227 study exploring the potential of the combination of Opdivo plus [our other cancer immunotherapy] Yervoy for PD - L1 positive patients, and Opdivo plus Yervoy, or Opdivo plus chemotherapy in PD - L1 negative patients,» he added.

Unlike chemotherapy, which involves administering powerful drugs that kill both cancerous and healthy cells (most healthy cells can repair themselves), immunotherapies harness the power of the immune system to help it identify and knock out just the cancerous cells.

Morphine for pain management, Zofran to ease chemotherapy nausea, Amiodarone to stop life - threatening irregular heartbeats, and Valium to help highly anxious psychiatric patients calm down are just a few examples.

Doctors use chemotherapy to try to shrink them, but because the pancreatic tumor doesn't have that many blood vessels, the drugs don't often reach the tumor in the desired concentration.

Chemotherapy works.

«From the moment we started this company, our goal was to remove chemotherapy from treatment regimens.

This sort of performance surely pleased investors, but they also have faith that the company will be able to continue to diversify its revenue stream with drugs like chemotherapy treatment Abraxane, which was acquired through Celgene's 2010 takeover of Abraxis.

Sundquist was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer when he was nine, and the chemotherapy treatments he went through changed his life forever.

He was treated in 2014 for a cancerous brain tumor, which was removed, and underwent preventative chemotherapy afterward.

«More than twice the number of patients [were] still living at the end of the study after receiving IMAB362 plus chemotherapy compared to chemotherapy alone,» according to Ganymed CEO Özlem Türeci, with patients showing the highest level of that protein biomarker responding best to the treatment.

According to the note Dimon sent out, he'll be undergoing an eight week course of chemotherapy and radiation.

In a late - stage trial, Darzalex combined with Velcade and chemotherapy slashed patients» risk of worsening disease or death by a stunning 61 % compared with the results for Velcade and chemotherapy alone.

The company's lead product candidate, dilanubicel (NLA101), is currently being evaluated in two ongoing Phase 2 clinical trials in adult and pediatric patients with hematologic malignancies undergoing an allogeneic transplant and adult patients receiving high dose chemotherapy for Acute Myeloid Leukemia.

«The charities or their telemarketers allegedly falsely told donors that their contributions would be used to provide pain medication to children suffering from cancer, to transport patients to chemotherapy appointments, and to pay for hospice care for dying patients.

In contrast, the typical, less efficient method of treating cancer uses combinations of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation to kill cancer cells.

The immune system sometimes takes time to adjust, and so responses can lag behind those seen with traditional chemotherapy.

Diageo built Tom's role around his chemotherapies; every time he would see Larry Schwartz, then president of Diageo North America, he would credit him with helping him survive cancer.

The company actually beat Wall Street profit estimates largely thanks to its superstar cancer immunotherapy drug Keytruda, which has been shown to best chemotherapy in helping lung cancer patients live longer and given Merck a leg up over rivals like Bristol - Myers Squibb's immune therapy Opdivo.