Sentences with phrase «positive lung tumors»
Patients with ALK - positive lung tumors may be candidates for targeted therapies that can improve prognosis and decrease risk for side effects.
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In the group that received targeted treatment for ALK - positive lung cancer, each category of tumor reduction was associated with corresponding gains in PFS and OS.
«First - line immunotherapy treatment can improve survival for subset of lung cancer patients: Results of phase III global clinical trial show that 75 percent of stage IV lung cancer patients with both complex tumor mutations and PDL - 1 positive status respond to nivolumab.»
«The result was an extensive inhibition of tumor growth and prevention of metastasis to the lung in HER2 - positive animal models of breast cancer,» notes Navasona Krishnan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral investigator in the Tonks lab who performed many of the experiments and is lead author on the paper reporting the results.
Such a positive survival rate is encouraging considering that historically conventional RT resulted in poor tumor control for patients with inoperable lung cancer.