Sentences with phrase «of aggressive surgery»

We hope that our work has given a lead towards a way of avoiding patients having to undergo this kind of aggressive surgery.»

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The senator from Arizona returned Monday to Washington, DC, less than a week after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and less than two weeks after he had brain surgery.

Citizens of other countries where the financial system was crippled or injured are much more aggressive in their support for radical surgery, such as certain provisions embedded in the U.S. financial reform bill.

«It's an aggressive form of bone cancer that's treated with a very harsh regime of chemotherapy and surgery or possible amputation of the affected limb.

In adults, more aggressive treatments such as removal of sweat glands through surgery may be done.

Bob Adair, 61, a carpenter for the Department of Sanitation, said losing his paid days off was a hardship after his wife underwent shoulder surgery and he had treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

«This study demonstrates that targeted fusion - guided biopsy could significantly enhance our ability to identify patients with high - risk prostate cancers that need more aggressive treatment,» says lead author Mohummad Minhaj Siddiqui, MD, assistant professor of surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of urologic robotic surgery at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.

Recent studies have shown an increase in women with breast cancer choosing this more aggressive surgery, called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, which raises the question of potential overtreatment among these patients.

Women who pursue a more aggressive surgery for early stage breast cancer have nearly eight times the odds of reporting substantial employment disruptions, according to a new study from University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers.

«Emotional distress may motivate men with low - risk prostate cancer to choose more aggressive treatment, such as choosing surgery over active surveillance,» said UB's Heather Orom, the lead author on the study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Urology.

In the group of patients with aggressive, or high risk, prostate cancer, the average number of days from diagnosis to surgery or radiation treatment was 96 days for Caucasian patients, and 105 days for African American patients.

For most patients — including actor Patrick Swayze, who died this week as a result of this aggressive malignancy — abdominal pain, weight loss and jaundice are the disease's first indicators, and their onset usually occurs after the cancer has metastasized, erasing any possible benefit of surgery.

«These findings raise the possibility that by determining the gene expression profile of a patient's tumor, physicians may be able to identify aggressive disease at the outset of diagnosis and start treatment earlier,» said Sungyong You, PhD, an instructor in the Cedars - Sinai Department of Surgery and the first author of the study.

Based on an analysis of existing evidence, published in an opinion article in the Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology journal on January 20, Dr. Narod argues that to achieve a cure, rather than simply delay progression or reoccurrence of the disease, women should be first treated with aggressive surgery to remove all clinically - detectable cancer cells, followed by targeted chemotherapy to the abdomen (intraperitoneal chemotherapy).

The surgery should be aggressive in an attempt to remove all visible signs of the tumour, and to avoid leaving any residual disease.

A new study finds that more than half of women with early stage breast cancer considered an aggressive type of surgery to remove both breasts.

This week, a team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) publishes encouraging results of a pilot study testing a new way of pinpointing the minority who have aggressive disease at the time of diagnosis, a fact that usually determines whether they will have surgery or not.

Study lead investigator Shannon Chen, BA, says the team is already collecting further data on patients having lap - band and other types of more - aggressive weight - loss surgeries.

The disease mainly affects babies and young children, and while in some cases the tumours can disappear of their own accord, the majority are aggressive, metastasising cancer tumours that are resistant to modern combinations of surgery, radiotherapy and intensive chemotherapy.

This is the first population - based study to compare the follow - up intensity of American men with prostate cancer who have not undergone aggressive treatment with those who opted to undergo various forms of aggressive therapy, such as surgery and radiation.

«Prostate cancer can often be an indolent disease, where a patient may only require surveillance rather than aggressive surgery,» noted co-author Christopher J. Kane, MD, professor of urology at UC San Diego.

And while life expectancy has increased with better therapies, surgeries, and more aggressive treatment of identified risk factors, depression has come under increasing scrutiny as a risk factor that could make a difference, if properly treated.

However, approximately twenty percent of meningiomas are aggressive and can recur even after surgery and radiation therapy.

Under active surveillance, doctors do not treat the cancer but instead keep a watchful eye on it to make sure it doesn't become aggressive — sparing patients the harms caused by surgery or radiation therapy, said Krist, a professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University.

By 2014, researchers had identified about 700 patients with the cancer who had a 20 - year survival rate of 69 percent due to early diagnoses and aggressive surgery.

However, with aggressive post-operative rehabilitation under the guidance of your veterinarian and / or rehabilitation therapist, the chance of these complications is greatly reduced, and most owners are happy with the outcome of the surgery.

For patients that require more aggressive therapy, we offer a broad range of advanced treatment options such as tooth extractions and minor oral surgery.

For those of you who have been following Barret's story, he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of canine cancer following a surgery to remove a lump.

Constant rate infusion pain medications during and after surgery, ketamine drips for chronic pain, widespread use of local anesthesia, including soaker catheters after large surgeries, testicular blocks, line blocks and more aggressive opioid and gabapentin use are all things Gwen helped bring to the table.

For the safety of your pet and other guests at Pet Paradise, we do not accept pets in heat, pets that have been coughing within the last week, pets that have open wounds or stitches, pets that are recovering from surgery, pets that have contagious diseases, or pets who are people - aggressive.

Based on Boone's initial CT scan, surgery would be very aggressive and unlikely be able to remove all of the tumor.

The notion of a part of the body growing out of control for no apparent reason is bad enough, but the aggressive and expensive treatments used for cancer, such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy can be frightening as well.

During a warm water swim session TTouch ™ can be used as a way of offering the dog help in cases of excessive barking, aggressive behavior, extreme fear and shyness, excitability and nervousness, problems with aging, surgery recovery, as well as a multitude of physical and emotional issues.

Yellow Dogs are dogs who need space - they are not necessarily aggressive dogs but more often are dogs who have issues of fear; pain from recent surgery; are a rescue or shelter dog who has not yet had sufficient training or mastered obedience; are in training for work or service; are in service; or other reasons specific to the dog.

The disadvantages of spaying female dogs include a slight increase in aggressive tendencies in some females after OHE, an increased risk of urinary incontinence (usually treatable but may require life - long treatment), weight gain above what would occur with normal maturity in about 10 % of dogs and the risk of the surgery itself.

It can sometimes be treated successfully with surgery - but the surgery must be very aggressive, removing a large amount of tissue surrounding the tumor - possibly even bone.

If the tumor is in an obviously advanced state at the time of the first surgery, then a less aggressive surgery to palliate the infection may be more appropriate.

She was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, and we were informed that surgery would not extend her life.

I was diagnosed — through a number of tests beyond PSA levels — with an aggressive prostate cancer, which has been successfully treated by surgery.

Most of the time bowel obstructions need to be removed through surgery and peritonitis will need to be treated with aggressive antibiotic therapy.

But since then, veterinarians have learned that very aggressive treatment to stabilize these dog's cardiovascular system before attempting surgery greatly improve the chances of recover.

Spay and neuter surgeries help to prevent unwanted behaviors such as aggressive behavior towards other animals, roaming in search of mates, urine marking in dogs and urine spraying and odor in cats and persistent barking and mounting in dogs.

Given several options on how to treat we chose to have hip replacement surgery, a more aggressive route, but one that offered him the best chance to enjoy the rest of his life.

Regrettably, dogs and cats develop a number of benign and cancerous tumors that require aggressive surgery for a cure or to provide long - term control.

Beyond the obvious benefit of reducing the population, male dogs may be less aggressive after surgery, while females are less prone to pyometra, a life - threatening uterine disease.

Such aggressive surgery is coupled with the use of oral antibiotics (provided there are no side effects and diarrhoea) or injectable antibiotics.

This surgery will need to be much more aggressive to make sure they are able to get all the way to the cells that are producing the cancer, after the removal of the tumors, he will again be treated with the cryosurgery and implantation of chemotherapy slow release beads.

The victims of aggressive dogs, biting dogs, and other vicious dog behavior and pet attacks may require physical therapy and extensive surgeries.

Nevertheless, the total number of bites and other injuries caused by aggressive dogs now exceeds 4.5 million annually, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of dog bite cases requiring surgery exceeds 30,000 a year.