Sentences with phrase «how radiation and chemotherapy»

The research focuses on how radiation and chemotherapy might be used to ease pain in dogs suffering from this debilitating disease.

The approach combines clinical factors and the molecular markers associated with the different medulloblastoma subtypes to guide how radiation and chemotherapy are combined with surgery.

It is similar to how radiation and chemotherapy are used to «condition» patients for a bone marrow transplant, to improve engraftment of transplanted immune cells.

Not exact matches

Chemotherapy and radiation can cause devastating side effects to children, and it's not clear how beneficial the treatments are for this disease.

In our trial, however, the addition of radiation therapy directed at each of the cancerous areas greatly improved how patients responded to subsequent rounds of chemotherapy,» said Puneeth Iyengar, MD, PhD, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Study coauthor Ronald Levy, an oncologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, says that physicians generally take their cues from the disease, waiting to see how fast it is moving — and treating it with toxic chemotherapy (sometimes with radiation) only if it becomes aggressive.

This phase II trial studies how well chemotherapy and radiation therapy work in treating younger patients with newly diagnosed central nervous system germ cell tumors.

This reassuring, optimistic guide helps people get a handle on treatment options and explains in plain English how chemotherapy and radiation therapy really work.

«Moody also forged how rhabdomyosarcoma is managed in kids, and not just radiation therapy but how radiation is intertwined with chemotherapy.

The model will be a valuable tool for studying how stem cells give rise to the various cells of the immune system, how immune cells kill cancer cells and fight infections, and how immune cells respond to radiation and chemotherapy, two major treatments for many cancers.

Hear Dr. Polukhin discuss the benefits of hypnosis and how it is being used to effectively treat a wide range of medical conditions including chronic pain, stress, and the reduction of symptoms associated with radiation and chemotherapy.

If chemotherapy and / or radiation therapy are not an option, your cat can be treated symptomatically, and depending on how aggressive the cancer is, your cat may be able to live for several months to years.

If chemotherapy and / or radiation therapy are not an option, your dog can be treated symptomatically, and depending on how aggressive the cancer is, your dog may be able to live for several months to years.