Sentences with phrase «given after chemotherapy»

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This time, she was given different chemotherapy — docetaxel and gemcitabine — as it was assumed that her cancer had grown resistant to the previous drugs, and, after several weeks, the tumours had shrunk right down.

Patients receive cyclophosphamide for two days after their bone marrow transplant, in addition to two other chemotherapy drugs given before the transplant.

The team gave rapamycin to mice with prostate cancer — after they had been treated with DNA - damaging chemotherapy.

Our research provides evidence that immunotherapy may be more effective if given straight after chemotherapy,» Balkwill said.

A drug recently developed by Pfizer, crizotinib, targets ALK and is currently given to patients with ALK positive lung cancer when their cancer has worsened after initial chemotherapy.

Patients in clinical remission — whose tumors have disappeared or are significantly reduced in size — are given a course of immune treatment after a six - month rest period following chemotherapy.

After the neo-adjuvant chemotherapy, the patients were then given accelerated radiotherapy.

Our system will give patients continual support both during and after chemotherapy, while allowing them to remain in the comfort of their own homes.

If it proves as effective in people as it is in mice, a vaccine could one day be given to cancer patients after surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy to prevent tumors from regrowing.

A trailblazing oncologist who took on childhood leukemia by introducing combination chemotherapy — in which anticancer drugs are given simultaneously rather than singly — retired in September after 50 years at MD Anderson.

Chemotherapy is usually given before or after surgery to reduce or destroy any remaining cancer cells.

After a year of treatment, which involved a partial mastectomy to remove a malignant tumor, followed by eight months of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the pop star was given the all clear in November 2006.

After receiving the results of the extensive tests the staff gave their recommendations to the team at the Animal Cancer and Imaging Center, and Sadie immediately started on a new chemotherapy program.

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.