Sentences with phrase «effective chemotherapies for»

«These findings are important for cancer treatments, as currently there are no drug therapies for enchondromas and there are no universally effective chemotherapies for chondrosarcomas,» said senior author Benjamin Alman, M.D., chair of the Orthopaedic Surgery Department at Duke University Medical Center.

For years, docetaxel has been the only effective chemotherapy for men whose cancer was no longer responding to hormone treatments.

Although many vets refer these pets on to a veterinary oncologist there is really no effective chemotherapy for dog or cats that I feel is worth the suffering they will experience in chemotherapy or the short extension of their lives that it might bring.

Not exact matches

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.

In a beautifully ironic twist for a natural chemical falsely accused of causing stomach cancer, capsaicin has been shown to be «absolutely effective» in alleviating the pain from oral stomatitis, mouth sores caused by cancer chemotherapy and radiation treatments, according to Dr. Ann M. Berger of Yale University's Pain Management Center.

A particularly effective treatment against many cancers, platinum - based chemotherapy, has the unfortunate side effect of damaging the hair cells in the ear that are responsible for sensing sound waves, Goldrich said.

Not all chemotherapy drugs are equally effective for all people, and finding the best treatment for an individual is a painful process of trial and error that wastes time and exposes patients to toxic side effects.

«Chemotherapy is extremely effective in treating testicular cancer, but it can have long - term consequences for a patient's health and wellbeing.

«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.»

Multiplexed genetic screening for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene rearrangements and subsequent biomarker - guided treatment is cost - effective compared with standard chemotherapy treatment without any molecular testing in the metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) setting in the United States.

One example: A consensus panel convened by the National Institutes of Health, after reviewing medical literature, concluded in November 1997 that «there is clear evidence that needle acupuncture treatment is effective for postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting, nausea of pregnancy, and postoperative dental pain.»

While this is effective against some cancers, for others, such as «solid» cancers in the bowel and lung, chemotherapy has only moderate success.

But in the meantime, it would help if we could identify who won't benefit from standard treatment, so we can spare them the debilitating effects of chemotherapy and get them into clinical trials for experimental therapies that might be more effective.»

Previous studies have shown acupuncture is effective for chronic pain, including low back pain, neck pain, and osteoarthritis; tension - type headache; chemotherapy - induced nausea and vomiting; period pain; and hayfever.

A highly targeted cancer radiation therapy may offer a safe and effective treatment option for elderly pancreatic cancer patients unable to undergo surgery or combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Tamara Minko, professor in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, and Lorna Rodriguez, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, say because there is not a good screening method for ovarian cancer, most women with the disease are not diagnosed until after it has metastasized to other organs and surgery and chemotherapy are not as effective.

The safety study sets the stage for phase II clinical trials looking at whether high dose vitamin C is effective at extending overall lifespan and quality of life for patients undergoing radiation and chemotherapy.

«Cannabinoids used in sequence with chemotherapy are a more effective treatment for cancer, say experts.»

«Targeting with a humanized MAG - 1 can likely be effective, especially when given in combination with chemotherapy, for treating a deadly disease for which there is no effective therapy.»

There aren't a lot effective treatments for this aggressive disease — it's resistant to most chemotherapy — and so the need for new approaches is great.

So we're hoping that we'll be able to make progress in advanced pancreatic cancer for which there is basically no effective chemotherapy.

One form of breast cancer called «triple negative» breast cancer is known for its biological aggressiveness and lack of effective chemotherapy options.

The researchers say the findings provide an explanation for recent evidence showing that anti-angiogenesis drugs such as Avastin can be much more effective when combined with chemotherapy.

He said traditional drugs to treat tapeworm infection — which target the whole organism at the larval stage - might not have been effective against tapeworm cancer cells, and it's also unclear whether chemotherapy for normal human cancer cells could have helped shrink the tumors.

January 14, 2000 Protein predicts prognosis for breast cancer patients Low levels of E-cadherin, a protein that links cells together, appears to be the single most effective factor for predicting which patients with early breast cancer will need chemotherapy following surgery.

These effective ways for preventing, managing, or treating different cancers can be used in conjunction with surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation.

Low levels of a protein that helps link cells together appears to be the single most effective factor for predicting which patients with early breast cancer will need chemotherapy following surgery, report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center in the January 15, 2000 issue of Cancer Research.

WESTMINSTER, CO (October 10, 2012)-- Researchers may soon be able to add yet another item to the list of exercise's well - documented health benefits: A preliminary study suggests that when cancer survivors exercise for several weeks after they finish chemotherapy, their immune systems remodel themselves to become more effective, potentially fending off future incidences of cancer.

Immunotherapy has been an effective treatment for patients with certain types of cancer that have been resistant to chemotherapy and radiation treatment (e.g., melanoma)

Summary: Low levels of E-cadherin, a protein that links cells together, appears to be the single most effective factor for predicting which patients with early breast cancer will need chemotherapy following surgery.

Further, most cancer treatments are based on damaging cancer cells, so understanding why a chemotherapy works, and for which patients, should lead to more effective and less toxic treatments that will increase the cure rate and improve quality of life for cancer survivors.

Led by Leena Gandhi, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and director of thoracic medical oncology, researchers from the KEYNOTE - 021 study demonstrated for the first time that combining an immune checkpoint inhibitor — in this case, pembrolizumab — with a platinum - doublet chemotherapy regimen might be more effective than chemotherapy alone as first - line treatment for advanced, non-squamous NSCLC.

Replacing the chemotherapy with a safe, side - effect - free treatment would mean that the established programs for immune system restoration could immediately expand to become a useful, effective treatment for immunosenescence, the age - related failure of the immune system.

If you're aware of the study that showed cancer patients who receive chemotherapy die sooner than those who receive no treatment at all, then the graviola tree and its extracts present a safe, and effective alternative treatment for you to explore.

Pain Management: Acupuncture is very effective for managing pain related to tumors, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and inflammation.

The findings provide new hope for cancer patients, many of which will not be diagnosed until an advanced stage of the disease when chemotherapy is least effective.

«These are dog - only, chemotherapy - type drugs that are potentially more effective for dogs and are less expensive for owners.»

Veterinary radiation may prove to be the most effective form of treatment for your pet's type of cancer, or may be used in addition to surgery or veterinary chemotherapy.

Chemotherapy may be effective for some cats.

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.

Take, for example, having to make a choice to treat your animal with a new form of chemotherapy that may be highly effective, versus allowing a natural decline and most likely leading to a euthanasia choice of your pet sooner.

Since radiation is a highly effective treatment for some forms of lymphoma in people, we are interested to investigate the potential of radiation used in combination with chemotherapy to extend the remissions of dogs with lymphoma.