Sentences with phrase «limited treatment»

Most of these men, who all had terminal prostate cancer with limited treatment options, had disease control lasting much longer than expected in this group of patients.

This makes it very difficult for us to treat bacterial diseases, as many antibiotics are becoming redundant, limiting the treatments available to people and animals.

The program currently limits treatment to a list of conditions found on their website.

But that can be limited by limiting the treatment times to just enough to create a limited amount of detox that you can handle without the body getting overwhelmed.

There is no vaccine, and there are only limited treatment options.

It should not limit his treatments option or affect the type of treatment he gets.

Unfortunately, although potentially preventable, once liver failure develops limited treatment options are available.

Nurse practitioners are qualified nurses who have the authority to provide diagnosis and limited treatment as well.

Lack of understanding about how to assess pain in cats, coupled with limited treatment options, led many veterinarians to use treatments that were largely unproven in feline patients.

In some cases a delay has resulted in limited treatment options, more invasive treatment and reduced chances of survival.

When Sunil complained, reports suggest he was attacked over a 30 minute period and was only given limited treatment prior to his death.

DR. CORSON: As you know, there are very limited treatments for the dry form of AMD, which basically just involves being followed by your ophthalmologist and potentially eating an antioxidant - rich diet.

«Escalating antibiotic resistance limits our treatment options, worsens clinical results, and is a growing global public health crisis,» said Meropol.

Triple - negative breast cancers tend to grow and spread more quickly than most other types of breast cancer, and a lack of these receptors limits treatment options.

To make matters worse, certain anti-diabetic drugs further increase this risk, particularly in postmenopausal women, severely limiting their treatment options.

She wrote the following essay two months ago after a frustrating day in which she and her staff faced limited treatment options for an injured animal owing to the owner's financial straits.

Limit the treatment area to a small amount such as the size of a dime.

Limiting the treatment course to two treatments should result in the clearance of approximately 90 % of the worms.

More recently though, the focus has shifted to the persistence of cognitive dysfunction even when depression is improved and whether cognitive dysfunction might be a factor limiting our treatment outcomes and long term functioning in those with depression (1, 2).

The Robert E. Howe Limited treatment facility offers a mix of mental health and addiction treatment services.

She has assisted Dr. Sells in the development of the Parenting with Love and Limits Treatment Model and System of Care, co-authoring the Family Therapy Coaching Manual and an upcoming Trauma Care book.

Limitations include limited treatment fidelity and small sample size.

The findings suggest that PCIT can be delivered successfully in an underserved community sample when families remain in treatment, but that premature dropout limits treatment effectiveness.

In 2013 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) declined to cover the tests, citing insufficient evidence that they would make a difference for patients with a disease for which there is no cure and limited treatment available.

InvivoSciences will continue to contribute to the improvement of human health by establishing a new paradigm for discovering drugs that focus on diseases with limited treatment options such as cardiac fibrosis, scleroderma, and lupus in a time - effective manner while remaining safe and cost effective.»

Professor Jenny Morton from the University of Cambridge said: «Despite its devastating impacts on patients and their families, there are currently limited treatments options, and no cure for Huntington's disease.

«The NHS typically deals with such shortfalls by limiting treatments, leading to increased waiting times.

«This is the first study to show that a systemic therapy provides significant clinical benefit in a randomized fashion to advanced uveal melanoma patients, who have very limited treatment options,» said Richard D. Carvajal, MD, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan - Kettering and lead author on the study.

Suk See De Ravin and colleagues applied an ex vivo gene editing approach using the CRISPR - Cas9 platform to chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), a genetic disorder with limited treatment options that leads to life - threatening infections and often requires long - term antibiotics.

«Psoriatic arthritis is a chronic condition that can have a significant and potentially debilitating impact on people with the disease, who currently have limited treatment options,» said Michael Corbo, Chief Development Officer, Inflammation & Immunology, Pfizer Global Product Development.

«Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients have limited treatment options and a desperate need for effective therapies,» said University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) neurologist Robert Griggs, M.D., lead author of the study.

«Notably, 74 percent of the 42 state Medicaid programs for which information is available limit treatment to individuals with advanced fibrosis or cirrhosis.

These data are very encouraging, especially for a disease that is extremely aggressive and has limited treatment options when it metastasizes.»

Many also are faced with the difficult decision to limit treatment or withdraw life support.

Patients with aggressive neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) have limited treatment options and there are few oncologists who are specialised in this relatively rare disease.

«Patients no longer have to live with severe chest pain, shortness of breath, fatigue and other symptoms of aortic stenosis, or limited treatment options that may not provide lasting results.

It could also work for other rapidly emerging diseases with a high death toll and limited treatment options such as SARS or viral haemorrhagic fevers that might be used as bioweapons, adds Menon.

This would provide an antidote to a deadly toxin that currently has limited treatments.

Since then, however, a more nuanced view has come into focus: the proved benefit of relieving menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes is worth the risk for some women, provided they limit treatment to the first several years after menopause.

«Our study demonstrates that nucleos (t) ide analogue treatment offers promising results in reducing the risk of liver cancer and damage among those patients who have limited treatment options,» said Professor Jeong - Hoon Lee of the Liver Research Institute at Seoul National University, Korea and corresponding author of the study.

«Early stage disease is curable,» adds co-author Bernadette Cracchiolo, director of gynecologic oncology at the school, «but late stage and recurrent disease have limited treatment options.

The downside, Johnson cautions, is that this type of therapy is still very new, and there are numerous factors that are involved at the tumor level that may limit treatment.

«Autism spectrum disorders are lifelong conditions for which there is no cure and limited treatment options, so there is an urgent need to identify any risk factors that we could mitigate, such as pollution,» said lead author Evelyn Talbott, Dr.P.H., professor of epidemiology at Pitt Public Health.

«There are limited treatment options in recurrent ovarian cancer,» said lead author Dr Mansoor Raza Mirza, chief oncologist, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark and medical director of the Nordic Society of Gynaecological Oncology (NSGO).

There are currently limited treatments to prevent or delay declining cognition or dementia due to vascular disease, but if risk is identified early, then development of these diseases might be slowed with lifestyle adjustments and treatments for risk factors like blood pressure.