Sentences with phrase «months on chemotherapy»

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The next few months saw me pass through radiation and enter a necessary but painful chemotherapy program which, among other things, caused vomiting, nausea, diarrhea and a pronounced listlessness that marooned me on my living room sofa for endless hours.

Prof Kirby said improving survival rates on patients receiving chemotherapy, which can extend life expectancies by up to three years, meant it was a «big mistake to let him out on the premise that he would be dead within three months».

In a head - to - head clinical trial comparing standard chemotherapy with the immunotherapy drug nivolumab, researchers found that people with squamous - non-small cell lung cancer who received nivolumab lived, on average, 3.2 months longer than those receiving chemotherapy.

Last month, Biopure launched a revamped clinical development program, emphasizing testing in Europe, with three phase II clinical trials planned for 2008 to study the impact of its product on heart attack patients, chemotherapy patients with anemia and the terminally ill.

A large trial showing that men with newly diagnosed, advanced prostate cancer lived ten months longer, on average, when they received docetaxel chemotherapy along with standard hormone therapy

Median overall survival for patients on selumetinib was 11.8 months, compared with 9.1 months for those on chemotherapy, but the difference was not statistically significant.

The response rate for patients treated on the chemotherapy arm was 33.5 percent, but median duration of response was just 5.7 months before disease progression.

The period of time before ovarian cancer recurred (called progression - free survival) improved by nearly 3.5 months with the additional drug (13.8 months compared with 10.4 months for the woman on chemotherapy alone).

Based on recent information on the mechanisms of chemotherapy, a team of researchers of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC) developed a new clinical approach to increase the efficiency of treatment in glioblastomas that increased the median survival to 22 months — bringing much needed hope to those affected by this aggressive disease.

They found this was on average 14.1 months in the group having chemotherapy and cetuximab compared to 20.5 months in the group having chemotherapy alone.

In a study appearing in the May 3 issue of JAMA, Pascal Hammel, M.D., of Beaujon Hospital, Clichy, France and colleagues assessed whether chemoradiotherapy improves overall survival of patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer controlled after 4 months of gemcitabine - based induction chemotherapy, and assessed the effect of erlotinib on survival.

Two main examples of these translational studies we participated on can be exposed: The first Cog - Age clinical study (Pr F. Joly, Baclesse Caen) showed that cognitive decline can be detected 6 months after chemotherapy in breast cancer elderly patients.

In 2005, the chemotherapy temozolomide (Temodar ®) was approved to treat newly diagnosed GBM patients based on a randomized phase III clinical study that showed that it added 2.5 months to the median survival of patients.

«Responses with non-cisplatin chemotherapy, the previous standard, are short - lived and patients die within 10 months, on average,» says Dr. Balar.

I came to the retreat to detoxify my body since I have had a nine month course of chemotherapy after having a Glioblastoma Multiforme removed from my right temporal lobe on November 19, 2007.

Hi I want to thank you all for your help and advice on myoloma 2016 I was diagnosed took chemotherapy for 6 months and after all my research I went on plant based diet I am in remission 8 months now vegetarian is the way to go

Depending on the diagnosis, chemotherapy may last 3 - 6 months or some longer - term chemo treatments may be for an indefinite time, with the owner giving the pet a pill daily.

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.

Chemotherapy usually lasts for a span of 6 months with the number of treatments defendant on the severity of the disease (possibly 4 to 6 per week).

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.

Most dogs (75 - 90 %) respond quickly to chemotherapy with multiple drugs and enjoy a good quality of life for an average of 12 - 16 months of remission, depending on which drugs are used.

With chemotherapy, which many cats are on for the remainder of their lives, survival time will typically be on the order of six months, although there are exceptions.