Sentences with phrase «only curative treatment»
But until gene therapy is more commonplace, the only curative treatment for sickle cell is hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
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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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.