Sentences with phrase «from chemotherapy treatment»

In fact, your pet should show no ill effects from chemotherapy treatment.

Fifth - grade teacher Ryan Oleson could relate when he heard about a student at Brandywine Elementary who felt self - conscious about losing his hair from chemotherapy treatments — hair loss that would reveal a surgical scar on the back of his head.

Not exact matches

Immunotherapy differs from more traditional cancer treatments, such as surgery (cutting malignant cells out of the body), chemotherapy and radiation (poisoning the deadly mutants), and even the newer, more precise molecular drugs that attempt to jam the protein signals that tell tumor cells to keep dividing and conquering.

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Many laboratory tests were performed and chemotherapy — requiring intravenous punctures — was resumed, even though studies had shown that this type of cancer does not respond significantly, if at all, to drug treatment, and even though complications and side effects from the drugs were expected.

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.

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.

After the patient has returned home from the hospital, the next stage of treatment is consolidation, in which patients receive several additional rounds of chemotherapy to build upon the effects of induction.

Pagano, age 51, is expected to spend the next 6 - 8 weeks at the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center receiving and recovering from an initial round of chemotherapy, and then is likely to continue treatment for up to several years to hopefully achieve and maintain remission.

Mothers» contraindications: HIV positive, substance abuse, chemotherapy, radioactive isotope treatments until the elimination of the isotope from the mother's body, active tuberculosis, active chickenpox, active Herpes lesions, Chagas disease.

The primary aim is to investigate the use of targeted therapy using antibodies and antibody - conjugates and remove toxic chemotherapy and radiation from the treatment to maintain high cure rates and decrease late effects.

A patients» tumors from cholangiocarcinoma, a rare liver cancer that typically fails chemotherapy, shrunk significantly after treatment with FGFR inhibitors, which were prescribed based on results of next generation sequencing.

Based on the evolutionary idea that targeted epigenetic stochasticity can improve adaptation, these observations could explain how cancer cells are good at evading chemotherapy treatments and spreading from one part of the body to another, he adds.

The FDA also expanded the approval of pembrolizumab to treat the majority of people with NSCLC who had received prior chemotherapy, greatly increasing the patient population that can benefit from the treatment.

Melanoma treatments range from surgery to chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

It also moves the cancer cells away from the place where they were growing which could allow them to be removed through traditional cancer treatments such as radiotherapy, chemotherapy or surgery.

The authors of the study say that improvements in management, multi-drug chemotherapy, immunotherapies, stem cell transplants, radiotherapy and treatments that have less toxic side - effects have all contributed to the improvement in survival from leukemia.

Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) João Lobo Antunes have found a mechanism through which certain types of leukemia resist chemotherapy, thus revealing novel molecular targets that may be used to improve the efficiency of this type of treatment.

According to the study authors, the results are especially impressive because half of the patients had just finished treatment with the standard class of chemotherapy agents — fluoropyrimidines (e.g. 5 - fluorouracil [5 - FU] or capecitabine [Xeloda]-RRB- but had failed to benefit from them.

«Our research has led to the development of a test that can detect patients that will benefit from treatment up front and spare those who are at lower risk from the side - effects of chemotherapy.

«However, a number of clinical trials have suggested that both chemotherapy and radiotherapy are associated with the risk of suffering heart disease as a consequence of treatment,» says Hermann Brenner from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg.

The glue could also help to deliver drugs to the exact cells that need them, avoiding nasty side effects from less targeted treatments such as chemotherapy.

Furthermore, older patients are at risk from the adverse side - effects of adjuvant treatments such as hormone therapy or chemotherapy.

Prior studies that examined the impact of cancer treatment decisions on employment showed that patients who received chemotherapy were most likely to experience longer disruptions in or loss of employment, but changes in breast cancer management in recent years have shifted recommendations away from chemotherapy for early stage breast cancer.

Prof Fortunato Ciardiello from Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli, Italy, presented results from the CAPRI - Goim study on the efficacy of cetuximab plus FOLFOX chemotherapy as second - line treatment for patients with mCRC that progressed following FOLFIRI chemotherapy and cetuximab.

A new therapeutic approach tested by a team from Maisonneuve - Rosemont Hospital (CIUSSS - EST, Montreal) and the University of Montreal gives promising results for the treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow currently considered incurable with conventional chemotherapy and for which the average life expectancy is about 6 or 7 years.

In elderly cancer patients like my father and aunt, who suffer from a variety of chronic health problems, physicians often modify standard treatment regimens — perhaps using two chemotherapy drugs instead of three or lowering standard dosages — in the hope that the revised treatment will work well enough.

The researchers then exposed cells from each of these lines to a panel of 31 different drug treatments — including 23 chemotherapy compounds approved by the FDA for breast and ovarian cancers, six targeted cancer drugs, and two common drug combinations.

If validated in clinical trials, the signature would help physicians better identify which AML patients would benefit from chemotherapy and which patients have a prognosis so grave that they may be candidates for more aggressive treatments such as bone - marrow transplantation.

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.»

Individuals previously infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) who receive chemotherapy or immunosuppressive treatment may be at risk of reactivating the disease according to a summary of report from the Emerging Trends Conference, «Reactivation of Hepatitis B,» and published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

According to the Heidelberg scientist, research from the U.S.A. has recently demonstrated that nutrient starvation or rapamycin treatment can extend cell lifespan and also improve the efficacy of some types of chemotherapy.

From patient medical records, they obtained detailed information on treatments, which they used to estimate radiation doses to the stomach and to calculate the doses and types of chemotherapy that were used to treat the survivors» Hodgkin lymphoma.

However, adjuvant chemotherapy did not improve survival or disease - free survival, but we noted that the curves by adjuvant treatment did diverge progressively starting from year four for overall survival and from year two for disease - free survival.

Results from recent clinical trials and studies in animals suggest that a class of anti-cancer drugs called angiogenesis inhibitors may be able to temporarily reduce interstitial pressure and improve the efficacy of chemotherapy and radiation treatments.

Dr Bernardo Tavora, lead author on the paper from the Barts Cancer Institute, said: «This work shows that sensitivity to cancer treatment is related to our own body mistakenly trying to shield the cancer from cell - killing effects caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

The findings from the lab of Stowers Investigator Linheng Li, Ph.D., described in the Oct. 19 issue of the journal Nature Medicine, could cause researchers to rethink what they know about the workings of megakaryocytes and potentially lead to new treatments for patients recovering from chemotherapy or organ transplantation.

Attacking the perennial problem of systemic toxicity from typical chemotherapy treatments, Dartmouth investigators, led by Barjor Gimi, PhD, have engineered therapeutic cells encapsulated in nanoporous capsules to secrete antitumor molecules from within the tumor.

Brenneman benefited from her colleagues» support during the 2 years she was weakened by chemotherapy and drug treatments.

«For the first time, we were able to demonstrate, in surgically resected metastases, that treatment with bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy before metastasectomy also changes the clinical significance of the growth factors as potential biomarkers,» explains Stefan Stremitzer, one of the lead investigators from MedUni Vienna's Department of Surgery.

«Mesothelioma remains a difficult disease to find better treatment options for, so we asked whether high - dose hemithoracic radiotherapy would decrease the rate or delay the time of local recurrence after chemotherapy and radical surgery,» says lead author Prof Rolf A. Stahel, from the Clinic and Policlinic for Oncology, at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, and current President of the European Society for Medical Oncology.

At the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in Chicago, Illinois, this weekend, researchers reported preliminary results from tests of a novel treatment in 15 HIV - infected people designed to free them from the need to take antiretroviral drugs.

However, because the treatment involves aggressive chemotherapy that inactivates the immune system for a short period of time, some patients died from infections.

The trial combines the potent chemotherapy regimen FOLFIRINOX and pinpoint - accurate stereotactic body radiation treatment with an immunotherapy drug called algenpantucel - L from NewLink Genetics.

Men with newly diagnosed metastatic, hormone - sensitive prostate cancer lived more than a year longer when they received a chemotherapy drug as initial treatment instead of waiting to for the disease to become resistant to hormone - blockers, report scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and the Eastern Co-operative Oncology Group.

(WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017)-- Researchers have developed a two - pronged approach to blood cancer treatment: 1) attacking cancer cells directly and / or 2) driving them from the nurturing bone marrow environment into the peripheral blood streams, where they are more vulnerable (for example, to chemotherapy).

The company was formed primarily to commercialize the discoveries demonstrating that inactivation of an alpha kinase, EF2 kinase, protects normal (non-cancer) cells and tissues from the toxic effect of chemotherapy or radiation treatments.

3) The infusion time of MTX was reduced from 24 h to 3 h as a higher drug penetration has been achieved by a shorter infusion time.9 4) Importantly, given the cited literature, the treatment was age - adjusted with patients aged over 65 years having cyclophosphamide of the second and fifth and ifosfamide of the fourth chemotherapy cycle replaced by the less toxic agent temozolomide (TZM).

That adaptive approach to treatment might offer patients relief from chemotherapy's harsh side effects.

LA JOLLA, CA — Discovering that mouse hair has a circadian clock — a 24 - hour cycle of growth followed by restorative repair — researchers suspect that hair loss in humans from toxic cancer radiotherapy and chemotherapy might be minimized if these treatments are given late in the day.