Sentences with phrase «months after cancer treatment»

An echocardiogram is usually done six to 12 months after cancer treatment with an anthracycline, but how often should it be done after that?»

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The therapy had an outsized effect in African American men, helping those with metastatic castrate - resistant prostate cancer live a median 37.3 months after treatment.

In clinical trials the treatment — which involves extracting individual patients» immune T - cells, modifying them to seek out tell - tale biological markers associated with blood cancers like aggressive lymphoma, and then pumping those modified killer cells back into the body — has shown major promise, in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer in patients six months after treatment.

This week, after more than three months of searching, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) announced that IT industry leader Kristin Darby, CPA, MBA, will join the company as its Chief Information Officer.

Eleven months after her first chemotherapy treatments ended, doctors discovered that the cancer had spread.

Former President Jimmy Carter said that his most recent brain scan showed no signs of cancer, more than three months after he began treatment for four melanoma tumors.

Just months after finding out he had metastatic cancer, former President Jimmy Carter announced this weekend that his doctors have said he no longer needs cancer treatment thanks in part to a groundbreaking new kind of medication that trains the immune system to fight cancer tumors.

Researchers found that the one - month duration HRT, was associated with a significant improvement in recurrence compared to the two - month duration CRT and therefore would be reasonable to consider in men with intermediate risk prostate cancer and who do not have risk factors that could predispose the patient to bladder side effects several years after the treatment is complete.

Glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in adults, has no effective long - term treatment and on average, patients live for 12 to 15 months after diagnosis, according to the National Cancer Institute.

Men whose blood levels of DNA had decreased at eight weeks after treatment survived an average of 17 months, compared with only 10.1 months for men whose cancer DNA levels remained high.

But after six months and again at the end of the four - year trial, 87 percent of participants in the 5 - FU group said they'd be willing to repeat the treatment if it proved effective in reducing skin cancer.

He began to show immediate improvement and after three cycles of treatment received a blood stem cell transplant, and since has been cancer free for 19 months.

Breast cancer survivors had baseline neuropsychological evaluations within three months after primary treatments (n = 190), at six months (n = 173), at one year (n = 173) and at an average of 4.8 years after treatment (n = 102).

Nevertheless, after a median treatment of 10 months, 18 patients improved substantially on the drug, and it arrested the spread of cancer in 11 others.

The University of Melbourne Bertalli Chair in Cancer Medicine, Professor Sean Grimmond, said clinicians had limited time to decide on treatment, as the average patient survives only three to six months after diagnosis.

During the study, the researchers tracked the pre-and-post treatment diets and ultimate health outcomes of more than 400 cancer patients for an average of 26 months after they were first diagnosed and treated for squamous - cell carcinoma of the head or neck.

Advanced Cancers Destined to Return After Single Drug Therapies Targeted cancer cell therapies using man - made proteins dramatically shrink many tumors in the first few months of treatment, but new research from Johns Hopkins scientists finds why the cells all too often become resistant, the treatment stops working, and the disease returns.

After months of training and cancer treatment, Thompson reached the 29,035 - foot peak of one of the world's mightiest mountains.

Vivian has created her own path, and although this independence begins to crumble after months of cancer treatment, it still cements her as one of the most powerful female figures in recent literature.

This is obviously a very aggressive cancer since it returned only 3 months after treatment.

For dogs with large breast tumors (> 3.0 cm), the prognosis tends to be poor since there is an 80 % chance of recurrence of the tumor within 6 months after canine breast cancer treatment.

Melissa... this is why I follow your blog... I have been doing the same thing in my house this year... after a couple of years of cancer and treatments I am in remission and re-evaluating our house and how we use it... last month saw a «cleaning out» if you will and a huge yard sale... now I am ready to rip up our carpets and get down the wood floors... my husband during all this has been quite accomodating — our kids are older and we definitely do nt use our house the same way any more... I sent our dining room table and buffet to the basement which gives us alot more space in our living area — we only used it on holidays anyway and now our dining room is an extension of our livingroom with more seating — thanks for explaining your reasoning so eloquently — I'm going to show my husband your post and maybe now he will understand what I am trying to achieve with our whole house overhaul!