Sentences with phrase «additional chemotherapy treatments»

Survival rates can range anywhere from 4 - 6 months or as long as a year with additional chemotherapy treatments.

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After the patient has returned home from the hospital, the next stage of treatment is consolidation, in which patients receive several additional rounds of chemotherapy to build upon the effects of induction.

So with an appropriate test, patients could avoid getting additional radiation or chemotherapy treatment they may not need, Dr. Shay said.

«We found very high response rates to this treatment combination, which has the added benefit of having a much reduced risk of long - term organ damage compared to the highly toxic chemotherapy agents typically used for patients with relapsed Hodgkin lymphoma,» says Dr. Kelly, who is Program Director of the Pediatric Hematology / Oncology Service Line at the Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo and holds an additional faculty appointment with the University at Buffalo.

Fajkovic: «Patients could then conceivably be offered additional supportive treatment straightaway, for example, radiotherapy or chemotherapy — rather than waiting to see.»

This translated into a median overall survival of 57.6 months for men who received early chemotherapy compared with 44 months in the group given ADT as the only initial treatment — more than a year of additional life.

Additional treatment, such as chemotherapy, will depend on the biopsy results.

Additional staging tests confirmed the diagnosis of B - cell lymphoma so treatment with a multidrug chemotherapy protocol was initiated.