Sentences with phrase «because conventional treatments»

Cancer: pet guardians fear this diagnosis above all others; not only because the conventional treatments are so perilous, but also because, despite treatment, it is most often fatal.

It is considered a chronic illness because conventional treatments have failed to reverse it.

Not exact matches

Having exhausted all conventional medical treatments, he came to the quiet village because nothing else held out any hope for him.

And you can still argue there's a risk there if someone goes without conventional treatment because they believe homeopathy will cure them.

LSTM's Dr Robert Harrison, senior author of the study and Head of the Alistair Reid Venom Unit, said: «The findings underscore challenges to developing broad - spectrum snakebite treatments, because conventional antivenom is produced by immunizing horses or sheep with the venom from a specific species of snake.

Because the conventional drugs used for treatment can seriously damage the kidneys and heart, doctors normally have to limit the dose that they give.

They have engineered macrophages to deliver a therapeutic virus to hypoxic tumor regions, which respond poorly to conventional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation because of an insufficient blood supply.

«Identifying a cancer driver is crucial for cancer treatment because it allows the use of targeted therapies, which have less side - effects than conventional chemotherapy drugs, against a particular protein,» said Kurokawa.

«About 15 to 20 percent of patients who start conventional treatment for drug - resistant TB don't finish, mostly because of the length, expense and discomfort associated with it,» says Emily Kendall, M.D., an instructor in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

The toxic molecules then contaminate our waterways in part because they are not cleared by conventional wastewater treatment approaches.

These treatments offer a safer, more effective way to deliver radiation to children than conventional radiation therapy, which is used sparingly in children because of the risks of cognitive problems later in life.

Many patients with hepatitis come to the University of Chicago medical campus for advanced intervention after more conventional treatments did not achieve desired results or because their disease has relapsed.

That was a true testament to the power of natural medicine because he was getting conventional treatments of various kinds.

The Polish brain cancer doctor in Texas, Burzynkski, is continually put in jail and on trial because he continues to cure people of a type of cancer that conventional treatments have no answer for - you will die.

Natural therapies can be empowering because — although many are not as well - researched as some conventional medical treatments — they typically have fewer side effects.

Our conventional health model has no specific treatment for Hashi's, so it's treated just like regular hypothyroid conditions (same drugs prescribed), and because the autoimmune issue isn't addressed, the body continues to attack thyroid tissue, resulting in extensive tissue death.

Because of this, cancer can quickly become resistant to conventional treatments able to target only a very limited number of mutations.

One of the reasons vets urge pet owners to use heartworm medications to protect their dogs is because they've witnessed the very difficult, dangerous treatment that's used in conventional medicine.

When the conventional veterinarian suggested to euthanize my 2 year old German Shepherd dog because «nothing could be done to stop her suffering and to cure her» I turned to holistic treatments.