Sentences with phrase «after a chemotherapy treatment»

After chemotherapy treatment it is commonly called «chemo brain.»

View Details Chemotherapy: Treatment Journal (Cancer) by Anthea Peries (Author) Chemotherapy Treatment Journal This chemotherapy Treatment Journal, has a cycle treatment tracker for side effects that will enable you to accurately document, and regularly monitor how you are feeling; your mood, chemo brain symptoms, either during or after your chemotherapy treatment cycles, or during rest periods.

Patients with stage - IV cancer with one to five distant metastases and no tumors bigger than 10 centimeters (about four inches) in diameter were eligible to participate in the study either before or after chemotherapy treatment.

Many dogs experience some form of stomach or intestinal discomfort two to seven days after a chemotherapy treatment.

Patients will receive radiation to the front half of the body once a day for two days (4 Gy per day for a total of 8 Gy) after chemotherapy treatment no. 8.

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«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.»

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.

«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.

If the chemotherapy treatment can not wait until after the pregnancy is completed or if termination of the pregnancy is not an option, a woman can receive chemotherapy during pregnancy.

After all, in 2000 years, taking antibiotics or having chemotherapy might be considered primitive treatments for illness.

A few weeks after completing my last chemotherapy treatment, tests showed I was in remission.

Philippa Taylor explained why she thought it was an encouraging discovery: «There could be real benefits for some people, particularly young girls or people who are going through cancer treatment or chemotherapy and that destroys any chance of having their own eggs and growing eggs cells so if you can remove ovarian tissue, grow some egg cells outside the womb and implant them after the treatment then that could be very positive.»

Eleven months after her first chemotherapy treatments ended, doctors discovered that the cancer had spread.

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.

Doctors for Indianapolis Colts» head coach Chuck Pagano have declared that his cancer is in remission after the first round of chemotherapy treatments, according to Sheri Rudavsky of the the Indy Star.

A patients» tumors from cholangiocarcinoma, a rare liver cancer that typically fails chemotherapy, shrunk significantly after treatment with FGFR inhibitors, which were prescribed based on results of next generation sequencing.

Approximately one year after successful treatment with cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy, patients with advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), which primarily affects heavy smokers, generally relapse with recurrence of tumours that are resistant to further chemotherapy.

A majority of patients (80 %) experience a relapse after their initial treatment with chemotherapy, therefore a more effective line of treatment is needed.

The researchers confirmed these findings in a mammary carcinoma mouse model — treatment with dasatinib just a few days after administering two high doses of chemotherapy prevented tumor growth and increased survival rates.

In a clinical trial published in June, melanoma patients who received ipilimumab combined with chemotherapy gained a precious extra few months» survival compared with those who received chemo alone, and the treatment nearly doubled the number of patients still living after three years.

Dr. Rassool says that a clinical trial is planned to test whether low doses of a DNMT inhibitor, decitabine, and an investigational PARP inhibitor, talazoparib, can be safely combined and whether this therapy shows efficacy for AML patients, especially those who can not receive intensive chemotherapy, whose leukemia is resistant to treatment, or who have experienced a relapse after treatment.

The imaging system may be able to predict response to chemotherapy as early as two weeks after beginning treatment.

Many cancer patients that receive chemotherapy go into remission at first, but relapse after treatment is discontinued.

One month after the study treatment — which involves chemotherapy followed by intravenous infusion of JCAR017 — follow - up imaging showed complete remission of the brain lesion.

Women might still need to undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy after their surgery — treatments that are known to reduce the risk of cancer recurring — which could delay their recovery further.

One example: A consensus panel convened by the National Institutes of Health, after reviewing medical literature, concluded in November 1997 that «there is clear evidence that needle acupuncture treatment is effective for postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting, nausea of pregnancy, and postoperative dental pain.»

He and other cancer treatment researchers wanted to transport chemotherapy drugs inside a tumor after blocking its blood supply.

Cancer stem cells, a type of self - renewing cell found in tumors, are of particular interest because they are the main cell type responsible for tumor progression and for resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and therefore a major cause of tumor recurrence after treatment.

For patients with cervical cancer that has recurred after treatment or has spread elsewhere in the body, adding the experimental drug cediranib to standard chemotherapy improves tumour shrinkage and adds a modest improvement in progression - free survival, researchers report at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid.

After completing a deep review of the literature, he decided to pursue an extremely aggressive chemotherapy treatment, against the advice of his oncologist.

Patients in clinical remission — whose tumors have disappeared or are significantly reduced in size — are given a course of immune treatment after a six - month rest period following chemotherapy.

At Colchester General Hospital, the researchers looked at MR scans taken both before treatment and six weeks after the patients had completed chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and found that the patients whose tumors were less heterogeneous — ie more uniform — in terms of texture parameters six weeks after treatment were more likely to survive longer.

High - grade serous ovarian cancer often responds well to the chemotherapy drug carboplatin, but why it so frequently comes back after treatment has been a medical mystery.

A novel mechanism — similar to how normal tissue stem cells respond to wounding — might explain why bladder cancer stem cells actively contribute to chemo - resistance after multiple cycles of chemotherapy drug treatment.

After sequencing the tumor samples, the authors found that the JAK2 gene was more frequently amplified in chemotherapy - treated TNBC than in tumors before treatment.

«Mesothelioma remains a difficult disease to find better treatment options for, so we asked whether high - dose hemithoracic radiotherapy would decrease the rate or delay the time of local recurrence after chemotherapy and radical surgery,» says lead author Prof Rolf A. Stahel, from the Clinic and Policlinic for Oncology, at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, and current President of the European Society for Medical Oncology.

The authors report that cognitive function after cancer treatment in memory, processing speeds and executive function was comparable among those women who received chemotherapy with or without anthracycline and those who did not receive chemotherapy.

Women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer have long complained of lingering cognitive impairments after treatment.

Gene expression profiling tests, such as Oncotype Dx, analyze the patterns of 21 different genes within cancer cells to help predict how likely it is that a women's cancer will recur within 10 years after initial treatment and how beneficial chemotherapy will be to her.

At Colchester General Hospital, the researchers looked at MR scans taken both before treatment and six weeks after the patients had completed chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and found that the patients whose tumours were less heterogeneous — ie more uniform - in terms of texture parameters six weeks after treatment were more likely to survive longer.

Previous work has shown that induction of the nuclear foci of RAD51, an HRR protein, after neoadjuvant chemotherapy could be a measure of HRR functionality and can predict treatment response.

A Phase 3 Open - Label Randomized Study of Quizartinib (AC220) Monotherapy Versus Salvage Chemotherapy in Subjects with FLT3 - ITD Positive Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Refractory To or Relapsed After First - line Treatment With or Without Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) Consolidation

A new breast cancer clinical trial is testing the idea a major reason why breast cancer returns after treatment and spreads to other parts of the body is because current chemotherapy and radiation treatments do not kill the cancer stem cells.

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[iv] Nivolumab versus chemotherapy in patients with advanced melanoma who progressed after anti-CTLA-4 treatment (CheckMate 037): a randomised, controlled, open - label, phase 3 trial.

They sought to understand whether new genetic mutations occurring after chemotherapy erupted spontaneously due to acquired resistance, or whether the mutations already existed at very low levels prior to treatment.

Participants are being asked to take part in this study because they have advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer that has recurred or progressed after previous chemotherapy (s) including a platinum - based treatment.

It is thought that the treatment may help to «mop up» any cancer cells that are left behind after chemotherapy.

Voice - Box Saved with New Larynx Cancer Therapy Standard therapy changes for larynx cancer, and, the voice box is spared, after Kimmel Cancer Center investigators prove that, for most patients, combined treatment with chemotherapy and radiation has the same success rate as surgically removing the cancerous voice box.

This includes predictive factors, validation of diagnosis specific tools for functional assessment as well as the impact of different surgical techniques and type of chemotherapy used on the incidence of chronic pain after surgery and adjunctive cancer treatment.