Sentences with phrase «aggressive treatment for»

Some cats will go into liver failure in spite of aggressive treatment for the hyperthyroidism.

Some cats may be able to be weaned off some or all of their drugs while others require relatively aggressive treatment for the rest of their lives.

Prompt and aggressive treatment for kidney failure will give your dog or cat a better chance of a successful outcome.

New guidelines and the Choosing Wisely campaign recommend less aggressive treatment for older patients and those with limited life expectancy, such as a target HbA1c level of 7.5 percent or 8.0 percent.

«What was most surprising was that patients who underwent aggressive treatment for their prostate cancer were more likely to receive routine lab testing and visits with their doctor than those not receiving aggressive treatment.

«We aimed for a six month delay in local recurrence, which would be meaningful because it's an aggressive treatment for patients.»

· evidence indicates that low sodium intake may lead to risk of adverse health effects among those with mid - to late - stage heart failure who are receiving aggressive treatment for their disease;

Published in the Jan. 12 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, the study found that many older diabetes patients received aggressive treatment for their disease regardless of their health status and blood sugar levels.

Aggressive treatment for high blood pressure saves lives, newly released data from a recently halted clinical trial suggests.

Price recently ended aggressive treatment for his cancer at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler, Texas.

Of course there a lot of people out there who already have glaucoma, and we need to inform their treatment regimens as well as decide whether or not there should be more aggressive treatments for glaucoma.

Not exact matches

Certain doctors, notoriously the anesthesiologist Russell Portenoy of the Beth Israel Medical Center, called for more aggressive pain treatment.

For some, the goal will always be taking aggressive treatment measures and prolonging life as much as possible.

Early and aggressive marketing of a sexually active lifestyle, free birth control and a four times per year purchasing pattern are the Planned Parenthood funnel, out of which comes a large and growing number of big - ticket sales - infection treatment and abortions - for which Planned Parenthood works very hard.

More recently, a «top - down» approach has been favored in the management of IBD, which opts for aggressive treatment from the start.

Treatment had to be aggressive, medicine for both Zinnia and myself.

For stains that don't respond to basic treatment, you'll need a more aggressive approach.

«This morning's New York Times story regarding allegations that Walmart orchestrated a $ 24 million bribery campaign to gain favorable treatment by the Mexican government should be a wake up call for New Yorkers who have witnessed Walmart's aggressive lobbying effort and recent streak of opportunistic «philanthropy» in our city.»

There is at least one approved device and scores of experimental treatments being tested that could improve the odds of longer - term survival for patients with the type of extremely aggressive brain cancer afflicting U.S. Sen. John McCain.

Bob Adair, 61, a carpenter for the Department of Sanitation, said losing his paid days off was a hardship after his wife underwent shoulder surgery and he had treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

For a cancer with very high genetic diversity (like AML) however, the unintended effect of treatment is often to select for the most aggressive, resistant cells, clearing away their competitors and furnishing them with all the resources they need to flouriFor a cancer with very high genetic diversity (like AML) however, the unintended effect of treatment is often to select for the most aggressive, resistant cells, clearing away their competitors and furnishing them with all the resources they need to flourifor the most aggressive, resistant cells, clearing away their competitors and furnishing them with all the resources they need to flourish.

«Our discovery of these mutations is a first step in developing a genetics - based system for classifying endometriosis so that clinicians can sort out which forms of the disorder may need more aggressive treatment and which may not,» says Ie - Ming Shih, M.D., Ph.D., the Richard W. TeLinde Distinguished Professor in the Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

«Markers for prostate cancer death can identify men in need of more aggressive treatment.»

This gives us hope for better treatments for this aggressive, hard - to - treat cancer.»

In the future, perhaps a nurse or caregiver could simply send in a photo of a patient's reddened skin to a doctor using the model to find out whether it was likely to develop into a pressure sore for quick and aggressive treatment to keep it from getting far worse, Dr. Vodovotz speculated.

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

With the release and aggressive marketing of the long - acting narcotic OxyContin in 1996, a class of drugs that had largely been reserved for cancer patients was becoming a go - to treatment for conditions such as lower back pain.

A «Trojan horse» treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.

At five years following RT, survival rates for men who received brachytherapy alone were comparable to those who underwent more aggressive radiation treatment.

Depressed men with localized prostate cancer were more likely to be diagnosed with more aggressive prostate cancer, received less effective treatments and survived for shorter times than prostate cancer patients who were not depressed, a UCLA study has found.

The discovery holds promise for singling out people at high risk for more aggressive treatment.

«Therefore, the targeting of Runx2 expression in multiple myeloma cells may represent a new therapeutic strategy for the treatment of aggressive multiple myeloma.»

«Because the disease is so aggressive, patients may receive no treatment at all or if they are given an option it will be for just one line of treatment, so it's essential that the most suitable treatment is identified quickly.

«The letter, which comes in response to an aggressive campaign by the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), claims that for more than 30 years researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) have been «removing [macaques] from their mothers at birth and subjecting them to distressful and sometimes painful procedures that measure their anxiety and depression.»»

«Study identifies potential treatment target for pancreatic cancer: Molecular signature found in 30 percent of PDAC tumors associated with more aggressive cancer.»

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.

Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) has been investigated as a treatment for aggressive MS, the rationale for which is immune reconstitution.

Together with clinical researchers, they are preparing treatments for glioblastoma — the most aggressive brain cancer in adults — , Friedreich's Ataxia — a hereditary neurodegenerative disease — , and a type of paediatric brain cancer.

Few existing treatments offer durable survival benefits for patients whose NSCLC has spread past the lungs, due in part to the aggressive nature of lung cancer and its propensity to progress, even following treatment.

However, because their prognosis is unknown, many opt for aggressive treatments that have side effects that cause urinary, bowel and erectile dysfunctions and more.

Glioblastoma is the most aggressive type of tumor that originates in the brain and with no curative treatments currently available, the average survival time for patients ranges from 15 to 18 months.

«For men with prostate cancer, emotional distress may lead to more aggressive treatment.»

Immunotherapy is a promising approach in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, an aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer; but for most patients, immunotherapy drugs so far have failed to live up to their promise and provide little or no benefit.

In the group of patients with aggressive, or high risk, prostate cancer, the average number of days from diagnosis to surgery or radiation treatment was 96 days for Caucasian patients, and 105 days for African American patients.

Yet the microbes would still manage to overwhelm the drugs from time to time, causing sepsis and sending him back to the hospital for even more aggressive treatments.

These data are very encouraging, especially for a disease that is extremely aggressive and has limited treatment options when it metastasizes.»

«Mouse studies hold promise for a simple treatment for an aggressive gastric tumor.»

Two immunotherapy drugs currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of melanoma also show promise for treating a rare but aggressive form of papillary thyroid cancer.

This time, scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health wanted to investigate whether vitamin D might affect the success of a standard treatment for an especially aggressive and lethal malignancy.

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.