Sentences with phrase «not curative»

Medical management is often not curative but can be attempted with gabapentin (10 mg / kg, PO, tid) for paresthesias, omeprazole (0.7 mg / kg / day, PO) for reduction of CSF production, and analgesics for pain management.

If surgery alone is not curative, ask your veterinarian about further treatment options or obtain a referral to a veterinary oncologist for continued care.

Unfortunately, treatment of this disease is not curative, but palliative.

Unfortunately, testing and culling alone are not a curative for genetic problems.

Although not curative, selegiline can be very effective in managing your dog's symptoms.

Radiation therapy is considered palliative care and not curative.

Treatment for epileptic seizures is not curative.

Treatment is not curative, however, and most affected individuals eventually die from the disease.

Because it causes severe disease in people, and treatment of dogs is not curative, euthanasia may be performed

A drug which targets insulin signalling appears to restore insulin sensitivity in mice Type 2 diabetes is a massive burden on healthcare systems around the world, and while current treatments are able to manage many aspects of the condition, they are not curative.

However, when all of this evidence is taken into account, a little extra Vitamin C could be protective, not curative or magical, just a little added insurance.

Just a reminder... the primary purpose of LDN is diagnostic, not curative... it will tell if the opioid system is involved, and because it affects the opioid system differently at different times of day (first blocking it then increasing its stimulation by elevating natural endorphins)... she might find it has a palliative effect, I hope that's the case... she definitely should remove wheat and dairy from her diet in any case.

Straightforward, but unfortunately, not curative.

Treatment for hepatitis B, although very effective, is not curative.

«Currently, the therapeutic options for liver fibrosis are limited and not curative,» says senior study author Stefan Wirtz of Friedrich - Alexander University Erlangen - Nuremberg.

If men present with metastatic prostate cancer, treatments are not curative and only slow disease progression.

Ibrutinib is a well - tolerated, oral drug that improves symptoms and survival in high - risk CLL patients, but is not curative and requires continuous treatment for life.

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

Vaccinating for rabies will help an animal mount an immune system response to protect against rabies, but it isn't a curative treatment.

Not exact matches

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb isn't mincing words about kratom, the increasingly popular herbal substance that's been hawked as an alternative to painkillers and anti-depressants by companies promoting its ostensible curative properties (and supposedly innate safety as a «natural,» plant - based product).

A: You are always going to find many different opinions among economists but there is a general awareness that financial instability is not self - curative and that strong action is necessary in the face of financial panic, that is a more settled idea today than it would [have been] five years ago.

But prayer has also an important relation to the body, not only for making it a more effective vehicle of the spirit, but for the release in it of curative forces when it becomes disordered.

As for what people are entitled to, Callahan observes: «A society can not be said to owe its citizens the pursuit of every medical possibility to meet every curative need, much less when the possibilities of doing so are endless.»

e) War itself can not be creative or curative.

Obviously, while such methods of handling the passion of vindictiveness may be externally ameliorative, they are not inwardly curative, and they lend color to the words of Jesus, «Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.»

Would love some of the baobab powder to really feel the curative effects but unfortunately my student budget doesn't stretch that far!

In 2010, the first curative therapy for metastatic melanoma, which normally does not respond to chemotherapy, was approved by the FDA.

«But with re-irradiation, our study shows that maybe we can give a curative intent treatment that we couldn't do in the past.

If hypofractionated radiation with curative intent can reduce the treatment time for lung cancer patients by half with no greater toxicity, and with equivalent — if not better — tumor control and survival outcomes, this research could result in a change in the paradigm of how a large subset of locally advanced NSCLC patients are treated.»

Despite improvements in the past few decades with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, a predictably curative treatment for glioma does not yet exist.

Public health must be addressed not only through curative medical care but also through nutrition, food systems and a safer built environment.

It is refreshing that your question asks why talking is comforting and not why talking is curative.

Yet coffee was not merely curative; several Arabic writers noted its powers of sociability.

This can be useful to recommend that these tumors do not be conformed to surgery and determine that it will probably be necessary to administer adjuvant chemotherapy in other words, in those tumors with a more «benign» epigenetic pattern; surgery alone may be curative, thus avoiding the side effects of chemotherapy, «concludes the researcher.

Dr Miriyala said: «Outcomes were not evaluated in our study but it is common knowledge that treatment with palliative intent leads to inferior outcomes compared to that with curative intent.

However, nearly 70 percent of VA patients stopped curative treatment before entering hospice, even though they didn't need to, Gidwani said.

His key investments in regenerative medicine technologies have laid the groundwork for novel approaches to treatments aimed at generating not merely palliative but actual curative and restorative therapies.

One leukemia patient but not another may be eligible for a bone marrow transplantation as a first line of treatment — a harsh, costly, but potentially curative treatment.

• Must not be a candidate for potentially curative therapy or standard - of - care approved therapy • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 to 2.

While open surgery has been the mainstay of treatment for many of these tumors and often offers curative resection, it is not without risks.

Finally, though standard treatments may control the disease, they may not be curative and patients can progress or relapse over time.

Patients will be able to receive the Hutch's novel immunotherapies for cancer at roughly double the capacity that existed before the 9,222 - square - foot clinic opened, and intensive monitoring will enable researchers to better understand why some patients respond, where others do not, and to achieve the goal of developing the best curative approach to treatment for each individual patient.

I don't think it is curative but it is anti-inflammatory and can damp down symptoms.

The good thing about kefir is that it is not only curative but also preventive which means you don't have to be sick to take it and it is safe to drink it everyday.

For example, in the case of the right to the highest attainable standard of health, the Committee has indicated that «investments should not disproportionately favour expensive curative health services which are often accessible only to a small, privileged fraction of the population, rather than primary and preventive health care benefiting a far larger part of the population» (20).

The visceral forms of this disease require more aggressive treatment, and even then, the treatment will not likely be curative.

While 50 percent of these tumors are malignant, complete surgical removal is sometimes curative if the cancer has not metastasized.

If the problem is long - standing, neutering alone may not be curative.

Palliative care is the all encompassing approach that provides cats, who have a disease that is not responsive to curative treatment, with a plan to provide an improved quality of life with pain control being the principal feature.

The advantages of radioactive - iodine therapy are that the procedure is curative, has no serious side effects, and does not require anesthesia.