Sentences with phrase «only curative»

For estimating the overall effect for all included child maltreatment interventions, only preventive interventions, and only curative interventions, as well as for examining potential moderating variables, a three - level meta - analysis technique was used.

The only curative step was to remove the mass and treat his potassium deficiency.

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.

But until gene therapy is more commonplace, the only curative treatment for sickle cell is hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

The only curative treatment for pancreatic cancer is complete surgical resection.

The only curative treatment is a hematopoietic (blood - forming) stem cell transplant from a compatible donor.

Bone marrow transplantation currently is the only curative therapy for these blood diseases.

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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.

It is only a matter of time before we can therapeutically target this system as a preventative or curative intervention.»

Presenting these results at the 3rd ESTRO Forum in Barcelona, Spain, today (Monday) Professor James Morris, from the Department of Radiation Oncology, Vancouver Cancer Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA), Vancouver, Canada, will say that the ASCENDE - RT1 trial is the first and only existing trial comparing low - dose - rate prostate brachytherapy (LDR - PB) for the curative treatment of prostate cancer with any other method of radiation therapy delivery.

The majority of patients are diagnosed too late for surgery — currently the only potentially curative treatment — and 80 per cent of those who have surgery will see the cancer return.

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

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

Surgery is the only potentially curative therapy for individuals with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA), the most common type of pancreatic cancer.

Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has demonstrated curative potential in several types of cancer, but only for a small number of patients.

In 1954, an era where only 5 % of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma survived, Drs. Henry Kaplan and Edward Ginzton invented the first medical linear accelerator in the Western Hemisphere to deliver therapeutic radiotherapy (RT) with improved accuracy and potency, leading to curative outcomes in a group of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma.

Only the ministrations of his wife, Elizabeth, (a marvelous Helena Bonham Carter) bring him to Lionel, who, believing emotional intimacy is curative, insists on addressing the rankled Prince as «Bertie,» the family nickname.

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).

«Drug therapy is rarely curative by itself and in most cases is only indicated as ancillary therapy in a behavior modification program» according to this abstract.

In general, treatment is only considered necessary in clinically affected individuals and may involve either palliative treatment or curative surgery [8, 20].

Though none of the treatment plans for malignant cancer are curative, it can only improve the quality of the dog's life and prolong it.

Studies reveal that drug therapy is rarely curative by itself and in most cases is only indicated as ancillary therapy in a behavior modification program.

Technocracy, Inc., realizes only too well that no political government on this Continent has either the courage or the structural facility to institute a Continental Health and Medical Service as proposed in the blueprint of The Technate of America, which includes in part, compulsory physical examinations of all citizens every six months; the application of preventative as well as curative medicine in diseases, etc..

It also incorporated a severability clause that included curative language so that any provisions that were found to be contrary to law would be altered only to the extent necessary to make the agreement compliant.

We are bound to say, however, that were this the only error in the trial, we would have no hesitation in applying the curative proviso.

[3] In the end, the only issue of concern is whether the curative proviso in s. 686 (1)(b)(iii) of the Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C - 46, can be applied to sustain the convictions.

An emerging global trend in the health insurance market is the combination of packages that not only cover curative expenses but also focus on preventive care such as diagnostic tests and health checkups.

As healthcare expenses surge, one must look for a cover which provides a combination of packages that not only cover curative expenses but also preventive care.