Sentences with phrase «begins chemotherapy»

Before he can even process the news, he begins chemotherapy treatment at the hospital, and his friends and family struggle with the situation.

The CD (I listened to the sample) would be so soothing to play for my dad as he recovers from surgery and begins his chemotherapy treatments.

As he completed his surgery, which resulted in the removal of 22 lymph nodes, and began chemotherapy and radiation in June, the relentless sickness began.

The same month that Cascade filed its lawsuit, Frayne moved from Portland to Brooklyn, N.Y., where he began chemotherapy.

Steve began chemotherapy during Tyler's sophomore year, and has been hospitalized seven times in the past 18 months.

«This research is an important advance in the potential expansion of fertility preservation options for young patients who may not be able to undergo hormone stimulation to induce ovulation before beginning chemotherapy,» says study author Jacqueline S. Jeruss, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of surgery and director of the Breast Care Center at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.

She immediately began chemotherapy treatments timed around a hastily rescheduled wedding.

However, because efficient methods for measuring interstitial tumor pressure are lacking, determining the optimal time to begin chemotherapy or radiation treatment within this normalization window remains a challenge.

The 65 - year - old actor, who is the son of Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas, is set to begin chemotherapy after doctors discovered a tumour in his throat during a routine medical check - up, reported People magazine online.

However, in February of 2006, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to begin chemotherapy.

When Chicken later developed hemangiosarcoma, an aggressive cancer of the circulatory system that also affected Chicken's spleen, the Webbs brought her to the NC State Veterinary Hospital, where surgeons removed her spleen and began a chemotherapy program, extending Chicken's life for two years.

Brit began chemotherapy with Dr. Elmslie and she went into remission.

He had surgery at Duke and was waiting to get stronger so they could begin chemotherapy.

Not exact matches

Her doctor suggested Erbitux — a proven cancer drug that targets cancer cells exclusively, unlike conventional chemotherapies that more crudely kill all fast - growing cells in the body — and Aucoin went to a clinic to begin treatment.

When chemotherapy causes your hair to fall out, robs you of your energy and fills your mouth with canker sores, you begin to develop empathy with the ten lepers.

Weeks in the hospital having your blood stream broken down by chemotherapy so that it can be rebuilt, only to begin all over again and again and again.

I began diligently using essential oils and taking Young Living supplements and honestly saw a marked improvement, especially my tolerance to chemotherapy.

The 61 - year - old MP for North East Fife will begin a course of chemotherapy in Edinburgh on Monday.

The team found that after exposure to chemotherapy, the cells began developing physical markings usually seen in CSCs, including receptors on the cell surface to which specific proteins can bind.

Potti and his colleagues began by testing chemotherapy drugs on cultured cell lines from human tumors, such as from the lung, breast, or ovary.

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

Although the vaccine alone did not increase two - year survival rates beyond 8 percent, and chemotherapy alone had never increased survival beyond 8 percent either, when chemo was given to previously vaccinated patients, the survival curve began to go up.

«We hope that our test will significantly improve the odds of survival of breast cancer patients by allowing doctors to identify the most effective but least toxic form of chemotherapy for each individual patient before the treatment begins.»

For example, women whose cancer was no longer controlled by letrozole or other aromatase inhibitors, those who had already begun to receive chemotherapy, and premenopausal patients with metastatic disease.

The next step is to increase the percentage of genetically engineered cells, either by increasing the amount of cells in the infusion, by giving more than one infusion, or by administering chemotherapy to lower the number of untreated CD4 cells in the body before infusion begins.

To better predict how patients will respond to chemotherapy drugs before they begin treatment, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine conducted a proof - of - principle study with a small group of metastatic colorectal cancer patients.

By the 1940s — when researchers discovered that a chemical warfare agent, nitrogen mustard, suppressed cancer — chemotherapy with nitrogen mustard and other agents, along with radiation therapy and surgery, began to supplant Coley's toxins.

Difficult to treat and aggressive «triple - negative» breast cancer is chemoresistant even before chemotherapy begins, a new study by researchers from Karolinska Institutet and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center...

Dr. Chiu and his team have begun developing a more targeted method to deliver the chemotherapy: «The ultimate goal is to create an alternative way to deliver chemotherapy to people with neuroblastoma so we can increase the dosage of chemotherapy but, at the same time, decrease the systemic toxicity,» he says.

In this study, patients began treatment with chemotherapy using cyclophosphamide and topotecan and the experimental monoclonal antibody hu14.18 K322A.

Lock finished chemotherapy last week and begins daily radiation treatment next month, for a total of 19 sessions.

«This study begins the groundwork for potentially finding a way to understand and dial back cell diversity and adaptability during chemotherapy to decrease drug resistance.»

The study, which began in April 2015, administered axi - cel to 108 patients who had failed prior chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation.

The trial began as a study of concurrent chemotherapy and sunitinib, but was amended into a maintenance therapy trial when the combination was not well tolerated.

Professor Susan Short, member of NCRI's Radiotherapy Research Working Group, said: «We're just beginning to realise the full potential of PARP inhibitors to tackle many different types of cancer, so it's exciting to see that olaparib could potentially be used to treat glioblastoma in combination with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

After finally coming to terms with the severity of her condition, and accepting that she needed both the Eastern and Western Medicine (which included Chinese herbs, vitamin supplements, a strict vegan diet, chemotherapy, steroids and a lot of mental and spiritual work), her health began to turn - around.

She politely refused their offers of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation and began searching for natural, alternative cancer treatments.

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.

After several rounds of chemotherapy with no improvement in health, this patient began consuming dandelion tea as an alternative form of therapy.

She hides the news from Jess and her family until just before her chemotherapy treatments begin.

A month after the diagnosis, with my chemotherapy treatments about to begin, I obliquely mentioned, just before the bell rang, that I would be missing one day a week for a while for what I referred to as «treatment for a medical condition.»

After Cooper's first round of chemotherapy treatments the mass began to recede, and within two months it had nearly disappeared.

Topic: Treatment of Mast Cell Tumors: Chemotherapy & Radiation, Surgery and Tyrosine Kinases (Palladia) Time: Registration is from 6 - 6:30 pm; Lectures begin at 7 pm Location: Saucon Valley Country Club

His owners opted for chemotherapy and thus began their journey on canine bone marrow transplants, which was the only thing that could save his life.

Chemotherapy begins 2 weeks after surgery.

Zofran: Designed to treat nausea in chemotherapy patients, Zofran's manufacturer began marketing Zofran to pregnant women as a treatment for morning sickness.

Begin on - the - job training as a chemotherapy technician trainee at a cancer treatment center or hospital.

The Crowns Of Courage project began in 2016 when Michigan artist Amanda Gilbert helped chemotherapy patient Michelle proclaim and celebrate her fight against cancer with a henna crown tattoo.

I started my chemotherapy at the beginning of February.