Sentences with phrase «radiation therapy instead»

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Under active surveillance, doctors do not treat the cancer but instead keep a watchful eye on it to make sure it doesn't become aggressive — sparing patients the harms caused by surgery or radiation therapy, said Krist, a professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University.

It helps to put them back in the driver seat during their treatment, instead of treating them as a passenger as we bombard them with chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

His owners rejected radical surgery to remove part of his jaw and instead opted for a combination of radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and a melanoma vaccine.

Therefore, when we combine chemotherapy and radiation therapy (which can also be damaging to the heart), we often chose a different chemotherapy drug instead.