For instance, to
receive chemotherapy treatment for cancer.
Now doctors have investigated the use of crizotinib in patients with ALK positive lung cancer who have not yet
received any chemotherapy treatment.
Larsen emphasized that heart failure is by no means inevitable in patients
receiving chemotherapy treatment.
Because he is currently in Frankfurt
receiving chemotherapy treatment for pancreatic cancer, Tek appeared via video, wearing glasses and a black zip - up pullover, seated before shelves of books, and explained that he has recently been thinking about how his legacy can be «preserved for the benefit of the world.»
Not exact matches
«More than twice the number of patients [were] still living at the end of the study after
receiving IMAB362 plus
chemotherapy compared to
chemotherapy alone,» according to Ganymed CEO Özlem Türeci, with patients showing the highest level of that protein biomarker responding best to the
treatment.
If the
chemotherapy treatment can not wait until after the pregnancy is completed or if termination of the pregnancy is not an option, a woman can
receive chemotherapy during pregnancy.
No polio patient ever
received a miracle until the Salk vaccine and I routinely ignored cancer patients until
chemotherapy and radiation
treatments were developed.
She had been hospitalized a couple of times,
received chemotherapy again, and those
treatments were followed with the usual discomfort.
Mom is scheduled to get out of the hospital on November 10th — fingers crossed — and has chosen to
receive traditional
chemotherapy treatment.
After the patient has returned home from the hospital, the next stage of
treatment is consolidation, in which patients
receive several additional rounds of
chemotherapy to build upon the effects of induction.
Pagano, age 51, is expected to spend the next 6 - 8 weeks at the Indiana University Simon Cancer Center
receiving and recovering from an initial round of
chemotherapy, and then is likely to continue
treatment for up to several years to hopefully achieve and maintain remission.
The first - line designation means that some patients will have access to the drug without first having to
receive other
treatments such as
chemotherapy.
The FDA also expanded the approval of pembrolizumab to treat the majority of people with NSCLC who had
received prior
chemotherapy, greatly increasing the patient population that can benefit from the
treatment.
Additionally, due to other medical issues or poor performance status (a measure that considers a patient's quality of life and ability to function during
treatment), some stage III NSCLC patients are unable to
receive the standard
treatment of concurrent
chemotherapy and RT..
Once the disease spreads to other parts of the body, most patients are not candidates for surgery and
receive chemotherapy as their primary
treatment.
In a clinical trial published in June, melanoma patients who
received ipilimumab combined with
chemotherapy gained a precious extra few months» survival compared with those who
received chemo alone, and the
treatment nearly doubled the number of patients still living after three years.
Dr. Rassool says that a clinical trial is planned to test whether low doses of a DNMT inhibitor, decitabine, and an investigational PARP inhibitor, talazoparib, can be safely combined and whether this therapy shows efficacy for AML patients, especially those who can not
receive intensive
chemotherapy, whose leukemia is resistant to
treatment, or who have experienced a relapse after
treatment.
«The financial burden was higher in patients who
received chemotherapy — a potentially lifesaving
treatment.
The benefit of
chemotherapy, in addition to craniospinal radiation, was seen in adult patients with medulloblastoma (MB), including those with localized disease who
received high - dose radiation
treatment following surgery.
Many cancer patients that
receive chemotherapy go into remission at first, but relapse after
treatment is discontinued.
Prior studies that examined the impact of cancer
treatment decisions on employment showed that patients who
received chemotherapy were most likely to experience longer disruptions in or loss of employment, but changes in breast cancer management in recent years have shifted recommendations away from
chemotherapy for early stage breast cancer.
Dr Fiona Blackhall, a senior lecturer in The University of Manchester's Institute of Cancer Sciences and a consultant based at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust — both part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre — said: «In order to introduce precision medicine, where each cancer patient
receives treatment designed to target the genetic makeup of their individual cancer, we need to compare how effective the new targeted
treatment is compared to standard
chemotherapy treatment.»
Two patients that had previously not responded to available standard
treatments, including surgery, external radiation, hormonal and
chemotherapy, have
received 225Actinium - PSMA - 617 as experimental therapy.
Chemotherapy treatment usually involves the patient
receiving medicine through an intravenous catheter.
This study included 68 childhood cancer survivors who had
received cranial irradiation, intrathecal
chemotherapy or both for
treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or brain tumors.
Individuals previously infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) who
receive chemotherapy or immunosuppressive
treatment may be at risk of reactivating the disease according to a summary of report from the Emerging Trends Conference, «Reactivation of Hepatitis B,» and published in Hepatology, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
Regardless of disease stage, patients who
received surgery lived an average of 57 months, compared to less than 12 months for patients who
received only non-surgical
treatment (such as
chemotherapy or radiation therapy), and 1.4 months for patients who
received no
treatment at all.
In a study presented today at a meeting of women's cancer specialists, overall survival for women who
received standard
chemotherapy treatment plus bevacizumab was a median five months longer than for women who
received the standard
chemotherapy treatment alone.
Median overall survival for woman in the
chemotherapy plus bevacizumab
treatment was 42.2 months, compared with 37.3 for those
receiving chemotherapy alone.
Between April 1993 and March 2003, 1011 patients were randomized to four
treatment arms, 252 patients
received preoperative radiotherapy alone, 253 patients
received preoperative radiotherapy —
chemotherapy, 253 patients
received preoperative radiotherapy followed by adjuvant
chemotherapy, and 253 patients
received preoperative radiotherapy and
chemotherapy followed by adjuvant
chemotherapy.
Pauling denied that the study was a replication of Cameron's experiment because the patients used in the Mayo trial had all
received chemotherapy before taking vitamin C so their negative response to
treatment with vitamin C may have had more to do with their depressed immune system than the inefficacy of vitamin C.
One implication is cancer patients with few mutations in their tumors might respond better to PD - 1 inhibitors if they first
receive radiation or
chemotherapy, because these
treatments can create new mutations in tumors.
All patients who responded
received only one prior line of
chemotherapy therapy, suggesting that the drug may be an option earlier in the
treatment course.
As evidenced by CT scan, the cancer did not grow or spread in all 31 patients who completed
chemotherapy, thus all patients
received three SABR
treatments of 36 Gy each, including a 2 mm expansion around the gross tumor.
The authors report that cognitive function after cancer
treatment in memory, processing speeds and executive function was comparable among those women who
received chemotherapy with or without anthracycline and those who did not
receive chemotherapy.
Patients usually
receive surgery,
chemotherapy and radiation, but these
treatments are not very effective as an estimated 50 percent of GBM patients die within one year, and 90 percent die within three years.
Men with newly diagnosed metastatic, hormone - sensitive prostate cancer lived more than a year longer when they
received a
chemotherapy drug as initial
treatment instead of waiting to for the disease to become resistant to hormone - blockers, report scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and the Eastern Co-operative Oncology Group.
This translated into a median overall survival of 57.6 months for men who
received early
chemotherapy compared with 44 months in the group given ADT as the only initial
treatment — more than a year of additional life.
Typically, all would have
received chemotherapy as part of their
treatment.
Patients were randomized 1:1 to
receive treatment with investigator's choice of
chemotherapy or inotuzumab ozogamicin.
The agent was previously approved in December 2016 for the
treatment of ovarian cancer specifically associated with BRCA mutations, in women who had
received at least two prior
chemotherapy regimens.
Among HIV - positive patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, a new study finds that blacks are significantly less likely than whites to
receive treatment for the cancer, even though
chemotherapy saves lives.
• Documented FGF / FGFR alteration and have either 1a) failed at least 1 previous
treatment for their metastatic or surgically unresectable urothelial carcinoma (ie,
chemotherapy, immunotherapy) or 1b) have not
received chemotherapy due to poor ECOG status or 2) have insufficient renal function.
A bid to improve near - zero survival rates for pancreatic cancer will
receive a boost with the creation of Australia's first pancreatic cancer «organoids bank», enabling researchers to bring down the time it takes to find individualised
chemotherapy treatment within weeks rather than months.
The study, published in November 2016 in The Lancet Oncology and presented with updated outcomes at the October 2017 World Conference on Lung Cancer in Yokohama, Japan, reported that 57 percent of patients
receiving the combination therapy responded to
treatment, whereas only 31 percent responded to
chemotherapy alone.
Before a patient
receives a donor's marrow, his or her own marrow must be destroyed by a rigorous
treatment of
chemotherapy and / or radiation.
Patients with tongue cancer who started their
treatment with a course of
chemotherapy fared significantly worse than patients who
received surgery first, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Patients
receive a personalized, comprehensive approach to care for their benign and malignant brain tumors and are evaluated for multimodality
treatments such as
chemotherapy, minimally invasive surgical options, and radiation therapy including proton therapy and gamma knife.
In addition, patients who
received Rydapt in combination with
chemotherapy in the trial went longer (median 8.2 months) without certain complications (failure to achieve complete remission within 60 days of starting
treatment, progression of leukemia or death) than patients who
received chemotherapy alone (median three months).
Women who
receive chemotherapy and radiation for breast cancer could be at greater risk for heart disease, even years after
treatment, the American Heart Association warned in February 2018.