Sentences with phrase «aggressive therapy»

Unlike ER - positive cancers that respond well to treatment, those that are drug - resistant spread elsewhere in the body even with aggressive therapy.

Sometimes, I had gentle therapy and other times I had more aggressive therapy with weights to build up strength; PT helped but the pain always came back.

Most patients die within a few years of diagnosis, despite aggressive therapy.

The majority of cats however, will require more aggressive therapy as they will become too painful to eat.

Approximately 60 - 70 percent have dogs will survive when very aggressive therapy is initiated quickly.

We treat our patients with the latest scientific advances and develop new, more effective and less aggressive therapies.

However, the disease is invariably fatal, with a median survival of about 14 months after diagnosis, even with aggressive therapy.

Like topical treatments, these more aggressive therapies are safe and effective in diverse ethnic groups.

If too much time has passed and the pet has absorbed the medications or is already showing signs of poisoning, very aggressive therapy is needed and is not always successful.

Currently, DCM has no cure as the available medicines only delay the onset of congestive heart failure or the need for aggressive therapies like heart transplantation.

Twenty years ago few oncologists would have attempted aggressive therapies with 90 - year - olds.

This is the first population - based study to compare the follow - up intensity of American men with prostate cancer who have not undergone aggressive treatment with those who opted to undergo various forms of aggressive therapy, such as surgery and radiation.

Hepatologists team with UChicago Medicine oncologists, surgeons, interventional radiologists and other specialists to offer the most aggressive therapies to confront this challenging type of cancer.

«Rather aggressive therapy decisions are perhaps being made in the absence of careful, competent discussion about what this means.»

Sometimes a nasogastric tube is used for a couple of days in order to stabilize the cat before more aggressive therapy can be started.

Despite aggressive therapy with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, long - term survival for HGG patients remains less than 20 percent.

His long term prognosis is guarded; I have had a number of pets with renal failure live several years with aggressive therapy as was prescribed for Pele.

«Because of relatively low survival rates and their advancing age, these patients tend to be poor candidates for aggressive therapies, like a bone marrow transplant,» said senior author Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Regenerative Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine and director of the Stem Cell Research Program at Moores Cancer Center.

Unfortunately, many dogs and cats will die even with aggressive therapy.

«I think that that can be brought down through more aggressive therapy to well below 50 %,» Aavitsland says.

Over time, central vision becomes affected, which can mean substantial damage already has occurred before any aggressive therapy begins.

«Cardiac CT angiography is helpful for identifying diabetic patients who are at higher risk for heart events, who may benefit from more aggressive therapy to help modify that risk,» added Dr. Leipsic.

However, the majority of patients present with advanced disease, requiring early and aggressive therapy.

In advanced mucosal melanoma, combination anti — PD - 1 and anti — CTLA - 4 treatment may be the preferred approach in those who are able to tolerate more aggressive therapies, given the higher response rates observed compared with single - agent checkpoint blockade.

Combination anti — PD - 1 and anti — CTLA - 4 treatment may be the preferred approach in those who are able to tolerate more aggressive therapies, given the higher response rates observed compared with single - agent checkpoint blockade.

A small, phase 1 trial, published early online in the journal Radiology, found that this approach, designed to treat just the diseased portion of the prostate rather than removing or irradiating the entire gland, is safe and can be performed without the troubling complications associated with more aggressive therapies.

Perhaps the most important observation was that subtypes differed in their response to aggressive therapy: it worked well in Classical and Mesenchymal, and showed efficacy in Neural, but did not alter the survival of patients with Proneural GBM.

Prompt medical attention and aggressive therapy are important.

I think it's safe to say that most women, if they could be assured the same survival, would choose not to get more aggressive therapies,» she said.

The tendency is to increase dosage under the pretenses that more aggressive therapy is needed.

For patients that require more aggressive therapy, we offer a broad range of advanced treatment options such as tooth extractions and minor oral surgery.

With aggressive therapy, mortality rates are reduced to 5 - 20 %.

Estimated mortality rates are 100 % without treatment in young kittens — and even with aggressive therapies are over 90 %.

Early and aggressive therapy is generally needed when these plants are ingested.

Despite the severity and scariness of any cancer diagnosis, some dogs with nasal adenocarcinoma can be well - managed with timely detection and aggressive therapy and may live happily for months or even years.

Intense, aggressive therapy and a significant period of veterinary hospitalization — one to two weeks — might save him.

With aggressive therapy, some of these cats do recover from the poison.

Veterinarians can attempt to save the bird with aggressive therapies, such as administering supplemental oxygen and controlling inflammation in the lungs.

Fortunately Cheyenne was a very strong animal and survived the initial event, but with a prognosis of only four to six weeks of life, even with aggressive therapy.

Dogs that ingest hops require immediate and aggressive therapy.

Most patients improve within 24 - 48 hours with aggressive therapy.

Panleukopenia can have a high mortality rate despite early or aggressive therapy.

Some of the dogs haven't survived despite the appropriate and aggressive therapy.