Sentences with phrase «aggressive chemotherapy treatment»

With a wife and four children at home, DiCarlo was given aggressive chemotherapy treatment, which didn't work.

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

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Current treatments for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), an aggressive form of blood cancer, include conventional chemotherapy drugs that inhibit DNA synthesis.

Conventional, high - dose chemotherapy treatments can cause the fibroblast cells surrounding tumors to secrete proteins that promote the tumors» recurrence in more aggressive forms, researchers at Taipei Medical University and the National Institute of Cancer Research in Taiwan and University of California, San Francisco, have discovered.

In testing multiple HDAC inhibitors in combination with the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel, known to give some benefit for this aggressive cancer, they found that class II HDAC inhibitors signal through a newly discovered pathway to promote synergy with chemotherapy treatment.

Chemotherapy and other cancer treatments are supposed to get rid of the disease, but a new study finds they can elicit aggressive tumor growth instead, STAT reports today.

If validated in clinical trials, the signature would help physicians better identify which AML patients would benefit from chemotherapy and which patients have a prognosis so grave that they may be candidates for more aggressive treatments such as bone - marrow transplantation.

Based on recent information on the mechanisms of chemotherapy, a team of researchers of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) developed a new clinical approach to increase the efficiency of treatment in glioblastomas that increased the median survival to 22 months — bringing much needed hope to those affected by this aggressive disease.

The discovery offers a new treatment option beyond chemotherapy for this aggressive type of breast cancer.

Currently, cancer is present in one in 10 biopsies ordered by physicians, but all must be analyzed by pathologists to identify the extent and volume of the disease, determine if it has spread and whether the patient has an aggressive or indolent cancer and needs chemotherapy or a less drastic treatment.

Of those that had the high - risk signature, cancer spread to the lungs in 55 %, in spite of chemotherapy treatment, whereas only 10 % of the others showed cancer migration to the lungs — and even then, the lungs were not the principal or most aggressive site, the team reports 28 July in Nature.

However, as the treatment involves aggressive chemotherapy, the researchers stress the procedure carries significant risk.

Weight loss is common during chemotherapy for aggressive tumours, both because treatment may reduce appetite and because tumours lead to muscle wasting.

However, because the treatment involves aggressive chemotherapy that inactivates the immune system for a short period of time, some patients died from infections.

But, if a child is classified as high - risk, the survival rate falls to approximately 50 percent even with an aggressive treatment plan that includes high - dose chemotherapy, surgery, stem cell transplant, radiation and immunotherapy.

There aren't a lot effective treatments for this aggressive disease — it's resistant to most chemotherapy — and so the need for new approaches is great.

Due to the aggressive nature of AML, this disease usually requires intensive treatment, which may include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy and stem cell transplantation.

A new score that could identify certain women with primary breast cancer in need of more or less aggressive treatments could play a pivotal role in ensuring they are given the best possible chance of survival, while only giving treatments such as chemotherapy when it's necessary.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Although men with prostate cancer usually respond to standard treatment with hormone therapy or chemotherapy, many will eventually experience progression or recurrence despite treatment — particularly those with high - risk or aggressive forms of the disease.

Treatment for aggressive forms of NHL can include chemotherapy, immunotherapy, radiation therapy, bone marrow transplant, and more.

Doctors wanted to immediately begin «aggressive» radiation and chemotherapy and this idea frightened Elaine, as she had seen many family members and friends die from similar treatments.

One clinical trial with a median follow - up period of 20 years demonstrated that relatively good survival and local control can be achieved in inflammatory breast cancer patients with an aggressive schedule of alternating chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

The notion of a part of the body growing out of control for no apparent reason is bad enough, but the aggressive and expensive treatments used for cancer, such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy can be frightening as well.

Treatment involved an aggressive 7 - week course of radiation and chemotherapy.

Michael subsequently underwent aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatment and was declared tumor - free in January 2011.