Sentences with phrase «adjuvant treatments»

Analyses of the differences in the mechanisms of action of both drugs may provide a blueprint for the development of new adjuvant treatments for LNB.

Furthermore, older patients are at risk from the adverse side - effects of adjuvant treatments such as hormone therapy or chemotherapy.

«Tumour biology needs to be taken into account when deciding adjuvant treatments in this patient population.

Our intention with this study was to assess Ipilimumab as an adjuvant treatment for patients with completely resected stage III melanoma at high risk of recurrence.

The big developments involved two vaccines — PCV - 7 / Prevnar - 7 ® in 2000 and MCV4 / Menactra ® in 2005 — and an adjuvant treatment — dexamethasone.

However, adjuvant chemotherapy did not improve survival or disease - free survival, but we noted that the curves by adjuvant treatment did diverge progressively starting from year four for overall survival and from year two for disease - free survival.

Adjuvant treatment of melanoma patients with interferon is controversial.

Letrozole is approved by the FDA for the adjuvant treatment of early - stage breast cancer in postmenopausal women who have already been treated with 5 years of tamoxifen therapy.

FDA approves trastuzumab (Herceptin) for use with other drugs in the adjuvant treatment of women with early - stage node - positive HER2 - overexpressing breast cancer.

FDA approves the aromatase inhibitors anastrozole and exemestane for the adjuvant treatment of hormone receptor - positive early - stage breast cancer.

Phase III Study of ADXS11 - 001 Administered Following Chemoradiation As Adjuvant Treatment For High Risk Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer

Exercise offers a potentially attractive alternative or adjuvant treatment for insomnia... Exercise could be a healthy, safe, inexpensive, and simple means of improving sleep.»

Indications for radiation therapy (RT) include the primary treatment of specific tumor types, such as nasal tumors and brain tumors, adjuvant treatment of incompletely excised tumors, and palliation to improve quality of life for patients with non-resectable or advanced cancers.

Surgery may be the only treatment necessary, but if the tumor is unable to be completely removed, or metastases are likely or present, adjuvant treatment will be offered.

Chemotherapy may be used as an adjuvant treatment following surgery or as an option in cases where surgery may not be a feasible option.

Memantine as an Adjuvant Treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Symptoms in Manic Phase of Bipolar Disorder.

Not exact matches

Moreover, primary tumor locations should be carefully considered when deciding treatment intensity in metastatic and locoregional settings, and should represent an important stratification factor for future adjuvant studies,» the article concludes.

«By understanding how stress accelerates invasion in aggressive breast tumor cells, this work will inform future studies into whether beta - blockers could be a useful adjuvant therapy in the treatment of some aggressive breast cancers.»

«Standard first line treatment consists of surgical resection followed by radiation and concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide therapy.

The long term follow - up results suggest that new treatment strategies incorporating neoadjuvant chemotherapy are required, because adjuvant chemotherapy does not demonstrate any significant long term benefit on overall survival or disease - free survival.»

Between April 1993 and March 2003, 1011 patients were randomized to four treatment arms, 252 patients received preoperative radiotherapy alone, 253 patients received preoperative radiotherapy — chemotherapy, 253 patients received preoperative radiotherapy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, and 253 patients received preoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy.

The remaining nine guidelines address specific aspects such as radiotherapy, breast reconstruction or adjuvant systematic treatment.

Now there is a need for clinical trials with humans in order to verify its safety as an adjuvant in the treatment of leishmaniasis.

These chemicals, once proven safe, can serve as adjuvants of the standard antibiotic treatment, or they can be applied in an environmental setting as a way of generally managing of the spread of antibiotic resistance.»

Helmut Oettle, M.D., Ph.D., of the Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin, Germany, and colleagues conducted follow - up of a randomized trial that previously reported improvement in disease - free survival with adjuvant (in addition to surgery) gemcitabine therapy to determine if this treatment improved overall survival.

Patients were randomly assigned to either adjuvant gemcitabine treatment for 6 months or to observation alone.

The Use of Antimicrobials as Adjuvant Therapy for the Treatment of Obesity and Insulin Resistance: Effects and Associated Mechanisms — Sandra Aparecida dos Reis — Diabetes / Metabolism Research and Reviews

The adjuvant therapy program offered through our Breast Center closely monitors each patient's condition throughout every step of her treatment — transforming her from someone who may have become a victim, to a survivor.

Treatment given after the surgery, to lower the risk that the cancer will come back, is called adjuvant therapy.

There was no difference in lactate dehydrogenase, the number of metastatic sites, prior adjuvant therapy, primary in place at initiation of therapy, or intent of treatment across the cohorts for right - compared with left - sided tumors.

In the BEVERLY - 1 (UCBG - 0802) trial we aimed to assess the addition of bevacizumab to neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of patients with HER2 - negative inflammatory breast cancer.

As a single agent, ipilimumab is approved as a second - line treatment, as well as adjuvant therapy for patients with completely resected melanoma.

February 2, 2017 Under and misuse of hormone therapy decreasing, but still high A nationwide cancer registry of almost one million patients treated for hormone - sensitive breast cancer shows that one out of six women who should have received post-surgical treatment known as adjuvant endocrine therapy did not get this recommended component of care, which can reduce the odds of recurrence.

While researchers don't recommend omega - 3s as a first - line treatment for anyone with major depression or bipolar disorder, emerging research suggests it may be effective for people with mild depression or as an adjuvant to medication.

A 2015 article in the International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology sums up the findings of multiple studies on ketogenic diets and cancer with the following: «there is increasing evidence that the ketogenic diet may also be beneficial as an adjuvant cancer therapy by potentiating the antitumor effect of chemotherapy and radiation treatment.»

Gerbin and co-researchers at the Institute of cell biology in Switzerland found creatine could be used successfully as an adjuvant therapy for bone fracture healing or for the treatment of osteoporosis 7.

But Dr. Lodi maintains that the evidence shows it to be a powerful cancer preventative and treatment adjuvant.

In summary, the ketogenic diet does appear to be useful adjuvant to treatment for brain cancer.

Our evidence that these therapies should be investigated as potential non-toxic treatments or adjuvant therapies (complementary therapies).»

Treatment requires debulking and adjuvant cryosurgery or full - thickness eyelid resection.

It was concluded that perio - dontal therapy might be an adjuvant procedure in anti-diabetic treatment for these patients, although glycemic control did not improve in isolation.

Influence of adjuvant detached mindfulness and stress management training compared to pharmacologic treatment in primiparae with postpartum depression.