Sentences with phrase «typical treatment doses»

Typical treatment doses for a patient with breast cancer, for example, are in the range of 50 to 60 gray, spread over 20 - 30 sessions.

Not exact matches

Roughly half the patients were randomly assigned to receive the typical regimen of 41 treatments; the other half received the higher dose over just 28 treatments.

People with severe asthma, in which the airways become inflamed and constrict to impair breathing, do not get better even with high doses of corticosteroids, the mainstay of treatment for typical asthma, explained Anuradha Ray, Ph.D., professor of medicine, Pitt School of Medicine.

While second - stage results showed no significant differences between participants continuing to receive weekly doses of the active drug, those receiving biweekly doses and those shifted to placebo, Kimball notes that, since it is typical for the severity of HS symptoms to increase and decrease and because the study protocol required treatment discontinuation for participants whose symptoms stopped responding to the drug, larger scale studies will be required to better define the ideal length and frequency of treatment.

For the treatment of seizures, the typical dose is 4.5 to 13/5 mg per pound every eight to 12 hours.

The typical treatment consists of chlorambucil chemotherapy in various doses, depending on the degree of remission.