Sentences with phrase «curative treatment for»

Radioactive iodine is the most curative treatment for feline hyperthyroidism, but also can be the costliest.

[5] As RT delivery methods continue to improve and RT use for this disease decreases, it is our hope that the incidence of RT - associated breast cancer following curative treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma will decline.

But until gene therapy is more commonplace, the only curative treatment for sickle cell is hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

The only curative treatment for pancreatic cancer is complete surgical resection.

Yet over and over again it has been shown that even if it takes a little more effort than swallowing a little pill, exercise is an excellent preventive and curative treatment for many diseases.

Despite ongoing research effort and improved knowledge about the disease, there is currently no effective preventive or curative treatment for AD, which could result in a public health crisis given the continuous aging of populations worldwide.

It heralds a new era of curative treatment for patients with hepatitis C. Similar drugs that work equally well for all genotypes are now in the final stages of clinical development.

«In the meantime, ASCENDE - RT has made an important contribution to the search for a more effective curative treatment for prostate cancer,» he will conclude.

Despite improvements in the past few decades with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, a predictably curative treatment for glioma does not yet exist.

«This is a win - win - win for patients, payers, and employers,» Bekelman said, «The field of radiation oncology should be recognized for technical advances in clinical care that have achieved safe, effective, curative treatment for prostate cancer in fewer weeks.»

These new technologies, most of which are in early stages of development, hold significant promise for transformative and potentially curative treatments for some of humanity's most troubling and intractable maladies.

Not exact matches

«Highly curative hep C treatment safe, effective for drug users.»

This study represents a significant step towards the development of clinical trials in gene therapy for the curative treatment of hereditary deafness and balance loss in humans.

If hypofractionated radiation with curative intent can reduce the treatment time for lung cancer patients by half with no greater toxicity, and with equivalent — if not better — tumor control and survival outcomes, this research could result in a change in the paradigm of how a large subset of locally advanced NSCLC patients are treated.»

Ibrutinib is a well - tolerated, oral drug that improves symptoms and survival in high - risk CLL patients, but is not curative and requires continuous treatment for life.

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.

Presenting these results at the 3rd ESTRO Forum in Barcelona, Spain, today (Monday) Professor James Morris, from the Department of Radiation Oncology, Vancouver Cancer Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA), Vancouver, Canada, will say that the ASCENDE - RT1 trial is the first and only existing trial comparing low - dose - rate prostate brachytherapy (LDR - PB) for the curative treatment of prostate cancer with any other method of radiation therapy delivery.

The majority of patients are diagnosed too late for surgery — currently the only potentially curative treatment — and 80 per cent of those who have surgery will see the cancer return.

Glioblastomas represent roughly 60 - 70 % of all gliomas, and for this type of glioma there is no curative treatment.

The all - Penn study identified 969 patients from 2003 to 2006 who received curative - intent treatment for T4a larynx cancer from the National Cancer Database.

He expressed grave concern about the declining use of brachytherapy: «It's disturbing because we have this great treatment option that's an absolute requirement of curative therapy, and it's been available for decades, but the rates of actually using it are dropping,» Showalter said.

«Five - year survival data: Brentuximab vedotin may be curative in some with Hodgkin lymphoma: Phase II trial suggests therapy should be standard of care for patients facing relapsed or treatment - resistant Hodgkin lymphoma.»

Treatment for hepatitis B, although very effective, is not curative.

His key investments in regenerative medicine technologies have laid the groundwork for novel approaches to treatments aimed at generating not merely palliative but actual curative and restorative therapies.

This means that samples can be taken before the clinical debut of a disease, to identify markers of value for early diagnosis, improving the scope for curative treatment,» says Ulf Landegren, Professor of Molecular Medicine at Uppsala University and member of SciLifeLab Faculty.

Do date surgery is considered the most definitive treatment for early - stage melanoma, but it is rarely curative for the advanced stages of melanomas [8].

To date, no efficient curative treatments have been identified for NMD.

One leukemia patient but not another may be eligible for a bone marrow transplantation as a first line of treatment — a harsh, costly, but potentially curative treatment.

While open surgery has been the mainstay of treatment for many of these tumors and often offers curative resection, it is not without risks.

Patients will be able to receive the Hutch's novel immunotherapies for cancer at roughly double the capacity that existed before the 9,222 - square - foot clinic opened, and intensive monitoring will enable researchers to better understand why some patients respond, where others do not, and to achieve the goal of developing the best curative approach to treatment for each individual patient.

Nicholas P Restifo, MD, National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research, «Developing Curative Cancer Treatments Using Adoptive Cell Transfer - Based Immunotherapies»

[2] The concept of combined - modality treatment was advanced by Dr. Kaplan and Dr. Saul Rosenberg, who demonstrated that extended - field RT and combination chemotherapy could be curative for Hodgkin lymphoma patients.

Curative therapy, including chest RT for Hodgkin lymphoma, is associated with a definitively increased risk of breast cancer, most often manifesting approximately 20 years after treatment.

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the leading cause of leukemia mortality in the United States.1 Curative treatment involves intensive induction chemotherapy, before proceeding to either consolidation chemotherapy or allogeneic stem cell transplantation based on the patient's risk for relapse.2 This approach has been employed for > 4 decades and, although most individuals achieve complete remissions with front - line therapy, 3 the majority of patients ultimately relapse with drug - resistant disease, and overall survival rates remain disappointingly poor.4 The limited ability of many patients to tolerate the intense chemotherapy - based treatments, in particular hematological toxicity, further contributes to the poor outcomes noted in this disease.

(5) Another study by Bartel showed IV Magnesium to be curative for Restless Leg Syndrome when IV magnesium was incidentally given to pregnant women as a treatment for eclampsia.

Vaccinating for rabies will help an animal mount an immune system response to protect against rabies, but it isn't a curative treatment.

Often combined with surgery and / or chemotherapy, Curative RT usually involves your pet receiving one treatment or fraction per weekday for three to four weeks.

Treatment for epileptic seizures is not curative.

Each approach has its pros and cons, but the consensus among veterinarians is that I - 131 therapy is the curative treatment of choice for most hyperthyroid cats.

Though none of the treatment plans for malignant cancer are curative, it can only improve the quality of the dog's life and prolong it.

Curative approaches are commonly used if the tumor can be controlled for one year or longer after the start of treatment.

Used as a treatment or curative arthritis supplement for dogs, it is useless.

Former fighting dogs and dogs with possible dog bite scars should not be used as blood donors due to the risk of vector - borne pathogens that can escape detection and for which curative treatment is difficult to document.

If surgery alone is not curative, ask your veterinarian about further treatment options or obtain a referral to a veterinary oncologist for continued care.

For many post-operative support cases or a «curative treatment plan,» your veterinarian may recommend a 24 - hour wear schedule.

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Our aim is to enhance the quality of life and ease the distress of patients suffering from cancer and other serious conditions and for whom curative treatment is no longer appropriate.

Our aim is to enhance the quality of life and ease the distress of patients suffering from cancer and other serious conditions and for whom curative treatment is no longer appropriate.