Sentences with phrase «progress after chemotherapy»
Patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer will always progress after chemotherapy, so most patients go on to be treated with immunotherapy, a type of therapy that uses the body's immune system to fight cancer.
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They found that it took longer for the disease to progress in patients whose tumour DNA count in the blood fell by more than a half after one cycle of chemotherapy, compared with patients whose DNA count did not drop.
Progress in prevention and early detection, and the use of chemotherapy after surgery (adjuvant chemotherapy), have achieved significantly increase survival in this disease in the last ten years, but much remains to be done.
[iv] Nivolumab versus chemotherapy in patients with advanced melanoma who progressed after anti-CTLA-4 treatment (CheckMate 037): a randomised, controlled, open - label, phase 3 trial.
Participants are being asked to take part in this study because they have advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer that has recurred or progressed after previous chemotherapy (s) including a platinum - based treatment.
Of the 29 patients, 24 had progressed after at least one round of systemic chemotherapy.
Among those who tolerated the diet, two patients died early, one stopped after 2 weeks due to personal reasons, one felt unable to stick to the diet after 4 weeks, one stopped after 6 and two stopped after 7 and 8 weeks due to progress of the disease, one had to discontinue after 6 weeks to resume chemotherapy and five completed the 3 month intervention period.
After a year of treatment with chemotherapy by his referring veterinarian, Barkley's clinical signs were progressing and he was brought to the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital for a novel treatment offered by Dr. Michele Steffey, a leading cancer surgeon in the hospital's Soft Tissue Surgery Service.