Sentences with phrase «late effects of treatment»

Right now between 15 and 20 percent of breast cancer patients ultimately relapse, and many more experience late effects of treatment or are diagnosed with a second cancer.

Research in the Leukemia Program spans from direction of clinical trials to basic molecular studies of leukemia biology, immunotherapy and development of novel agents, and to mitigating the late effects of treatment in long - term survivors.

«Our study adds strong support to the growing concern that stomach cancer is a rare but important adverse late effect of treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma,» said Morton.

Not exact matches

VICTORIA — New Democrat spokesperson for health, Judy Darcy, is congratulating advocates who have won improved treatment for the late effects of early childhood cancer.

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Not only is it based on the latest thinking in the rapidly evolving field of concussion evaluation and management and make concussion terminology easy to understand, but, in explaining the short - term and long - term effects of concussion and the concussion management process, Dr. Meehan arms sports parents with all the information they need in making informed choices about treatment and when it is safe for their child to return to the playing field.

I have found great comfort and advice in this area from a number of books (Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves, Unconditional Parenting, I Love You Rituals, and Gordon Neufeld's latest book) All of these books are sending the same message: harsh treatment of our little ones leave long - lasting and damaging effects on them.

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.

Editor's note: This story was updated June 21, 2017, to correct the list of side effects of the treatment and to note that it's not just late - stage cancer patients who might be eligible for immunotherapy.

«Cumulative burden provides us with a global view of tradeoffs between different treatment late effects that must be considered when designing new interventions,» Bhakta said.

The research, which appears in the journal The Lancet Oncology, should aid efforts to reduce and better manage the late effects of cancer treatment.

Intensive, adaptive computer - based cognitive training presented as a video game helped improve working memory and other cognitive skills of childhood cancer survivors and holds hope for revolutionizing management of the late effects of cancer treatment.

They address health promotion, surveillance for recurrence and screening for second primary cancers, and the assessment and management of physical and psychosocial long - term and late effects resulting from prostate cancer and its treatment.

· evidence indicates that low sodium intake may lead to risk of adverse health effects among those with mid - to late - stage heart failure who are receiving aggressive treatment for their disease;

Although there remain some effects of treatment on hearing, endocrine, and neurocognitive outcomes — particularly in younger patients — other late effects common in photon - treated patients, such as cardiac, pulmonary, and gastrointestinal toxic effects, were absent.»

For patients for whom radiotherapy is not suitable or feasible due to social circumstances, for whom the risk of late side effects of radiotherapy is high, or who have the prospect of a poor aesthetic outcome following BCT, a mastectomy may still be the preferable treatment option.

«With the ageing population it is important to have a better understanding of the long term effects of a premature menopause on later - life cognitive function and the potential benefit from using menopausal hormone treatment.

Survivorship includes issues related to health care access, follow - up treatment, late - and long - term effects of treatment, recurrence, and quality of life.

This focus on the potential ecological effects from pharmaceuticals largely began as a result of a growing number of technical papers published from the late 1990s until the present that have reported the detection of low levels of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plant effluent, manufacturing plant effluent and surface water and, to a more limited extent, groundwater, drinking water, soils, and sediment.

Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital found that deaths from late effects of childhood cancer treatment have declined in recent decades and survivors are living longer

Evidence from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study suggests that changes in childhood cancer treatment have reduced deaths from the late effects of cancer treatment and extended the lives of childhood cancer survivors.

The analysis showed that the 15 - year death rate has decreased steadily since 1970 due in part to a reduction in deaths from the late effects of cancer treatment.

examines long - term sequelae resulting from a diagnosis of childhood cancer and its treatment, and health care relating to these late effects.This multi-study initiative is funded by a Canadian Cancer Society program project grant, with additional funding from CCS BC and Yukon Division, and has examined long - term health effects and educational attainment, health care utilization, and quality of follow - up care among disease survivors.

At Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center, the 2 - PREVENT (Secondary PREvention through SurVEillance and iNTervention) aims to address one of the greatest challenges in breast cancer treatment: The high rate of relapse and late treatment effects among breast cancer survivors.

Despite 5 - year survival rates approaching 90 %, a substantial number of breast cancer patients relapse - and many more experience late treatment effects or are diagnosed with a second cancer.

Potential long - term or late side effects of cancer treatment, bone marrow / stem cell transplant, symptoms and treatments

A potential explanation for the secular trend may be that while improved treatment for cardiovascular risk factors or complicating diseases has reduced mortality in all weight classes, the effects may have been greater at higher BMI levels than at lower BMI levels.12 Because obesity is a causal risk factor for hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and dyslipidemia,15,19 - 22 obese individuals may have had a higher selective decrease in mortality.18 Indirect evidence of this effect is seen in the findings as the deaths occur at similar time periods in the 3 cohorts, but cohorts recruited at later periods have an increase in the BMI associated with the lowest mortality, possibly suggesting a period effect related to changes in clinical practice, such as improved treatments, or general public health status, such as decreased smoking or increased physical activity.

Treats epilepsy and seizures: Not only has CBD - enriched cannabis been studied for its incredible ability to reduce seizures in epileptic children; a later study observed the effects of a particular CBD extract on cases of treatment - resistant epilepsy.

This is too late in the progression of CHD because the dogs with crippling arthritis have missed two surgical options (JPS and DPO / TPO, see Treatment) that can significantly reduce the effects of hip dysplasia by 1 year of age.

Coated in an iron oxide rusted hue that recalls its title, the Boxcar's mathematical regularity contrasts lushly with its non-uniform effects: bulging canvas, stretched edges, and sensual and varied treatments of surface that are far removed from the machined manufacturing of Judd's later work.

As naval warfare became more prominent from the late 16th century, there was an increased demand for works depicting it, which were to remain a staple of maritime painting until the 20th century, pulling the genre in the direction of history painting, with an emphasis on the correct and detailed depiction of the vessels, just as other trends pulled in the direction of increasingly illusionist and subtle effects in the treatment of the sea and weather, paralleling those of landscape painting.

It also underscores the importance of going beyond a mere collection of treatment effects or correlations between early - life conditions and later - life outcomes to understand the mechanisms through which these interventions operate and their benefits emerge.

Although the use of negative discipline strategies was low, we believe that reductions in yelling in anger, threatening, slapping in the face, and spanking with an object are meaningful given the associations of early discipline strategies with later socioemotional development, mental health, and parent - child relationships.30 These treatment effects were observed in families who participated in a universal intervention broadly focused on development and behavior.

«Neuroscience and Trauma Treatment», written by David Crenshaw, starts with an excellent summary of the latest research covering the biological effects of psychological trauma: the disruption of homeostasis causing acute and chronic effects on many organs and biological systems; the way children appraise and process information; the effect upon perception of threats.

There were no differential long - term effects of the initially randomized treatment on clinical symptoms one year later, since most of the patients were asymptomatic.

Another source of concern is how to take into account the 10 % — 20 % of children who are asymptomatic and will later deteriorate, a phenomenon called the «sleeper» effect.3 One way to address this could be, as proposed by the authors, to offer services with a long term orientation, that is not only short term symptom driven approaches but also treatment for those who present themselves at later dates or who present durable problems.