Sentences with phrase «need chemotherapy»

If your pet should need chemotherapy treatment, their experience will be much different.

«In that case a woman might need chemotherapy, which involves longer period of time and more side effects and out - of - pocket costs than, say, the surgery and maybe radiation she'd need for stage 1.»

You only need chemotherapy basically if you have cancer in your lymph nodes.

Port also looked at the 40 - to 49 - year - old age group, and found those who had never had a mammogram were much more likely to need chemotherapy.

Women in the second group were 50 percent more likely to need chemotherapy.

Summary: Low levels of E-cadherin, a protein that links cells together, appears to be the single most effective factor for predicting which patients with early breast cancer will need chemotherapy following surgery.

Low levels of a protein that helps link cells together appears to be the single most effective factor for predicting which patients with early breast cancer will need chemotherapy following surgery, report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center in the January 15, 2000 issue of Cancer Research.

January 14, 2000 Protein predicts prognosis for breast cancer patients Low levels of E-cadherin, a protein that links cells together, appears to be the single most effective factor for predicting which patients with early breast cancer will need chemotherapy following surgery.

Our medical oncologists are also responsible for directing the care of patients who need chemotherapy for solid tumors.

Her course of radiation may be months and if she needs chemotherapy it'll be much longer.

Currently, cancer is present in one in 10 biopsies ordered by physicians, but all must be analyzed by pathologists to identify the extent and volume of the disease, determine if it has spread and whether the patient has an aggressive or indolent cancer and needs chemotherapy or a less drastic treatment.

«But isn't there some benefit to getting tested earlier, like needing fewer lymph nodes removed and not needing chemotherapy?

I think I prefer «toxic» beans and grains to a higher likelihood of needing chemotherapy, personally.

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After one of the company's co-founders, Colin Hill, underwent chemotherapy treatment and identified a need for continuous temperature monitoring, the team worked to create a technology solution.

Traditional therapies for brain cancer — surgery, chemotherapy and radiation — haven't been very successful, says Memorial Sloan Kettering's Dr. Baselga, adding, «We have a tremendous need to develop new therapies, especially with children.»

But if your body is already weakened, and you have already (say) gone through a number of rounds of chemotherapy, and the cancer has returned with virulence, you need not suffer still more.

and we can't offer free healthcare because privatized insurance companies need to make their profits before giving someone an extra chemotherapy visit... We as a nation are laudable.

Just finishing up chemotherapy and need to hydrate without always drinking water!!!

Why did you need the operation and chemotherapy?

If you need to undergo chemotherapy or radioactive isotope treatment, you will need to discontinue breastfeeding until these substances are completely out of your system.

These women may not be able to make enough breast milk because of a previous breast or chest surgery, or they may not be able to breastfeed because they need to have chemotherapy or radiation to treat cancer.

We're still waiting on a couple of tests to come back: some more hormone tests (my cancer is 95 % responsive to estrogen), and some genetic testing, but basically he told me that my cancer is very cooperative, it hasn't spread, and there is very little chance that I will need a mastectomy or chemotherapy.

Linda Palmer consults regularly in infant nutrition and bonding and receives numerous pleas from mothers who, due to breast surgeries, chemotherapy needs, and other physiological abnormalities are simply unable to provide adequate breastmilk to their babies.

And, if your treatment plan includes chemotherapy, you will need to discontinue breastfeeding during the course of treatment and for some time thereafter.

They told her she needed aggressive chemotherapy and radiation to kill the cancer cells in her softball - sized tumor.

Most of the time, he said, Watson affirms that the decisions he had already come to were correct, such as one breast cancer patient who needed aggressive chemotherapy.

The researchers say the doses needed might be lower than those required for chemotherapy.

Commenting on the findings, Dr Stefan Zimmermann, Senior Consultant, Medical Oncology Department, HFR — Hôpital Cantonal, Fribourg, Switzerland, said: «Oncologists do need G - CSF to mitigate neutropenia and increase chemotherapy delivery and compliance, but want the beneficial effect of timely concurrent therapy to outweigh the toxic risks.»

Standard - of - care chemotherapies are not curative and there is an unmet need for newer approaches, Dr. Borad adds.

«In an earlier phase I clinical study, our group has shown that increasing the dose of radiation delivered daily with high precision and using image guidance may offset the need for chemotherapy in improving survival, and it may also improve quality of life measures by reducing treatment periods in half.

A majority of patients (80 %) experience a relapse after their initial treatment with chemotherapy, therefore a more effective line of treatment is needed.

We identified patients with mutations that predict phenomenal outcomes in the disease; this is a group of women with endometrial cancer who won't need the financial, physical or emotional toll of chemotherapy at all — they're patients who are probably cured by surgery alone.

He needed a stem cell transplant, which is a normal treatment for leukemia, but his cancer needed to be in remission first, and the chemotherapy wasn't working.

The findings, announced online in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and funded by the National Institutes of Health, provide a needed boost to the field of antibiotic development, which has been limited in the last four decades and outpaced by the rise of drug - resistant bacterial strains.

The glue could also help to deliver drugs to the exact cells that need them, avoiding nasty side effects from less targeted treatments such as chemotherapy.

So with an appropriate test, patients could avoid getting additional radiation or chemotherapy treatment they may not need, Dr. Shay said.

Women might still need to undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy after their surgery — treatments that are known to reduce the risk of cancer recurring — which could delay their recovery further.

Dr Fiona Blackhall, a senior lecturer in The University of Manchester's Institute of Cancer Sciences and a consultant based at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust — both part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre — said: «In order to introduce precision medicine, where each cancer patient receives treatment designed to target the genetic makeup of their individual cancer, we need to compare how effective the new targeted treatment is compared to standard chemotherapy treatment.»

«There is a substantial need to find better options than chemotherapy for these patients,» said Reck.

New targets for novel chemotherapy drugs are urgently needed, and a new approach to finding the best targets in the complex protein networks that control our cells may point the way.

The oral medication, which is marketed under the brand name Xtandi ®, also helped prevent the spread of the disease to the bones, delayed the need for chemotherapy, and reduced evidence of prostate cancer in the bloodstream.

Following surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, average survival is still only 15 months, pointing to a critical need for new treatments.

But the researchers believe the particles could also reduce the need for platelet transfusions in patients undergoing chemotherapy or bypass surgery, and in those with certain blood disorders.

«A lot of work still needs to be done to develop this into a chemotherapy drug,» Raman cautions.

There's a need for ways to find these cells and to study them, and importantly, to develop drugs that target them, because these cancer stem cells are resistant to chemotherapy drugs that target the main tumor.

together with the chemotherapy we could allow a wider and safer use of anticancer therapies because we don't need to lower the dose or change the treatment.»

«Women need support to endure surgery and the rigours of intraperitoneal chemotherapy, but should be encouraged to do so whenever possible, considering the potential survival benefits,» said Narod.

After cancer chemotherapy failed, Brown needed a stem cell transplant for his leukemia.

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.

And so you saw things like cases like a woman coming in with breast cancer and there was no oncologist, there are no treatment infusion rooms where you can put central lines in and give the chemotherapy, but they could get the chemotherapies on the gray market — that's where there are pirated versions of the key drugs that you need — in India.