Sentences with phrase «like radiation and chemotherapy»

Still, research suggests that some alternative treatments (such as acupuncture and massage) may benefit people with cancer by easing the side effects associated with cancer therapies like radiation and chemotherapy.

Not exact matches

«I hope that someday all of you on the advisory committee can tell your families for generations that you were part of the process that ended the use of toxic treatments like chemotherapy and radiation as standard treatment, and turned blood cancers into a treatable disease that even after relapse most people survive.»

In what often must seem like a wicked twist of fate, most patients who receive radiation or chemotherapy to the head and neck develop serious oral lesions.

«iCCA is resistant to standard treatments like chemotherapy and radiation,» said Josep Maria Llovet, MD, Director of the Liver Cancer Program, Division of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and contributing author.

«This paper reveals a metabolic frailty in cancer cells that is based on their own production of oxidizing agents that allows us to utilize existing redox active compounds, like vitamin C, to sensitize cancer cells to radiation and chemotherapy,» says co-author Garry Buettner, who was one of the first to propose that cancer cells might have a vulnerability to redox active compounds over 40 years ago.

Combining immunotherapies directed at the patient with more traditional therapies, like chemotherapy and radiation, which are directed at the tumor, is another area of intense scientific interest.

Like many patients and caregivers on a cancer treatment journey, you may be familiar with traditional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation.

We have things like MRIs, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy available for our pets.

Until then, chemotherapy and radiation therapy were the two main solutions offered after removal of cancerous tumors, just like in people.

Sometimes cancer is curable - especially if caught early, but often it is a chronic disease that is managed by a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and some new innovative treatments like antibody therapy, immunotherapy, vaccines, cyberknife therapy, etc..

Conventional cancer treatments like radiation, surgery, and chemotherapy may destroy the cancer, but there's a trade - off in side effects; the risk - benefit ratio must be considered.

Like other treatment methods, hyperthermia can be used in combination with radiation and chemotherapy.

That's like telling the Stage 4 cancer patient that we will pull out all the stops on experimental chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, but they won't notice a thing.

Cancer treatments like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and steroid therapy sometimes weaken the immune system and limits the effectiveness of vaccinations received while the cancer patient is receiving treatment and for some time after.