Sentences with phrase «by chemotherapy so»

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.

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The bottom line is that Gates gives this book his most enthusiastic endorsement, concluding: «I don't know how Kalanithi found the physical strength to write this book while he was so debilitated by the disease and then potent chemotherapy.

For instance, most common adult solid tumors that are not cured by surgical removal are resistant to chemotherapy or radiation control, yet drug therapy is frequently offered as a «possibly effective» treatment because both patient and physician want to believe it so.

So far there's no approved drug on the market that reverses cancer chemotherapy resistance caused by P - glycoprotein, or P - gp for short, said Vogel, a biochemistry professor at SMU.

«Pancreatic cancer is extremely hard to treat by chemotherapy, so this finding is important because vitamin A targets the non-cancerous tissue and makes the existing chemotherapy more effective, killing the cancer cells and shrinking tumours.

This therapeutic effect was enhanced by combining the Angiopoietin - 2 antibody with a so - called metronomic chemotherapy: In this kind of therapy, chemotherapeutic drugs are given continuously at much lower dose as in the classical high - dose chemotherapy.

So much so, a type of fiber found in shiitake mushrooms is approved for use as adjunct chemotherapy, injected intravenously to help treat a variety of cancers by rallying our immune defenseSo much so, a type of fiber found in shiitake mushrooms is approved for use as adjunct chemotherapy, injected intravenously to help treat a variety of cancers by rallying our immune defenseso, a type of fiber found in shiitake mushrooms is approved for use as adjunct chemotherapy, injected intravenously to help treat a variety of cancers by rallying our immune defenses.

Fortunately, these tissues continue to grow and repair themselves, so injury caused by chemotherapy is rarely permanent.

Because mammary cancer in cats is so aggressive, veterinarians usually recommend radical mastectomy followed by chemotherapy.

By the act of killing off susceptible cancer cells, chemotherapy also selects for cancer cells that are resistant to treatment (drug resistance), so a drug may become less effective at each subsequent treatment.

I give a patient chemotherapy an the tumor volume shrinks by 10 %, but I know the doubling time is 4 weeks, so after 3 and a half months I can claim I have killed 100 % of the tumor.

A sampling of complaints submitted in a recent Bad Boss contest sponsored by the AFL - CIO included bosses who kept the office so cold that ink in pens froze up; a boss who took employees to lunch at a discount warehouse and told them to eat the freebies; and a boss who mocked a cancer patient when her hair fell out after chemotherapy.