Sentences with phrase «potentially curative»

Instead, it is an opportunity for proactive, potentially curative action.

• Must not be a candidate for potentially curative therapy or standard - of - care approved therapy • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 to 2.

One leukemia patient but not another may be eligible for a bone marrow transplantation as a first line of treatment — a harsh, costly, but potentially curative treatment.

Through this development, the Cancer Center can offer potentially curative bone marrow transplants to an increasing number of patients by using alternative bone marrow donors.

A potentially curative, but risky, option for pediatric Ph + ALL or Ph + CML is bone marrow transplant or cord blood transplant, but chemotherapy is favored by some for achieving first remission (CR1).

These new technologies, most of which are in early stages of development, hold significant promise for transformative and potentially curative treatments for some of humanity's most troubling and intractable maladies.

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

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.

That first year on the drug may provide an optimal window to collect T cells from patients and subsequently administer a potentially curative T cell therapy, the authors said.

«Understanding the molecular mechanisms by which asthma develops and establishes itself as a chronic disease is key to elucidating alternative and potentially curative therapies,» said Dr. Grayson.