Sentences with phrase «on chemotherapy alone»
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).
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Working with mouse models of cancer, they demonstrated how treatment with antibiotics on top of chemotherapy may be significantly superior to treatment with chemotherapy alone.
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.
The study, published in November 2016 in The Lancet Oncology and presented with updated outcomes at the October 2017 World Conference on Lung Cancer in Yokohama, Japan, reported that 57 percent of patients receiving the combination therapy responded to treatment, whereas only 31 percent responded to chemotherapy alone.
Depending on the nature of a mammary tumor, treatment may not be necessary, surgery alone, or surgery in combination with chemotherapy.
Prognosis of patients with this disease depends on multiple factors, the most commonly cited including: presence of metastasis (negative), elevated alkaline phosphatase (negative), large tumor size (negative), humerus location (negative), treatment chosen (dogs receiving amputation and chemotherapy have improved survival times over dogs receiving amputation alone) 1.