Sentences with phrase «achieved by chemotherapy»

Surgical removal does not significantly add to the survival time achieved by chemotherapy.

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The nivolumab group achieved better outcomes than the standard chemotherapy group by all accounts.

Based on an analysis of existing evidence, published in an opinion article in the Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology journal on January 20, Dr. Narod argues that to achieve a cure, rather than simply delay progression or reoccurrence of the disease, women should be first treated with aggressive surgery to remove all clinically - detectable cancer cells, followed by targeted chemotherapy to the abdomen (intraperitoneal chemotherapy).

First - line treatment for ovarian cancer includes surgery followed by a chemotherapy regimen combining a platinum - based (usually carboplatin) and a taxane - based (usually paclitaxel) treatment, which achieves a complete response in approximately 80 % of patients.

Selectivity of the therapeutic approach is achieved by producing an enzyme called E. coli purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) directly within tumor cells and using the enzyme to generate novel chemotherapy in the tumor mass itself.

A potentially curative, but risky, option for pediatric Ph + ALL or Ph + CML is bone marrow transplant or cord blood transplant, but chemotherapy is favored by some for achieving first remission (CR1).

3) The infusion time of MTX was reduced from 24 h to 3 h as a higher drug penetration has been achieved by a shorter infusion time.9 4) Importantly, given the cited literature, the treatment was age - adjusted with patients aged over 65 years having cyclophosphamide of the second and fifth and ifosfamide of the fourth chemotherapy cycle replaced by the less toxic agent temozolomide (TZM).