Sentences with phrase «recurrence after chemotherapy»

«Mesothelioma remains a difficult disease to find better treatment options for, so we asked whether high - dose hemithoracic radiotherapy would decrease the rate or delay the time of local recurrence after chemotherapy and radical surgery,» says lead author Prof Rolf A. Stahel, from the Clinic and Policlinic for Oncology, at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, and current President of the European Society for Medical Oncology.

Cancer recurrence after chemotherapy is frequently fatal.

Not exact matches

Approximately one year after successful treatment with cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy, patients with advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), which primarily affects heavy smokers, generally relapse with recurrence of tumours that are resistant to further chemotherapy.

These studies will investigate whether Src kinase inhibitors are best used in the adjuvant setting post-surgery or after chemotherapy to prevent the formation of local and distant disease recurrence.

Cancer stem cells, a type of self - renewing cell found in tumors, are of particular interest because they are the main cell type responsible for tumor progression and for resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and therefore a major cause of tumor recurrence after treatment.

Chemotherapy before surgery might provide a false assurance that there's no more residual cancer, whereas microscopic tumour may remain after the surgery, leading to cancer recurrence and possibly, death.

Patients with ER - negative, but not ER - positive, isolated locoregional recurrence after unilateral breast cancer derive significant benefit from chemotherapy.

Clearly a lot more work needs to be done to understand the precise cause of glioblastoma recurrence after surgery and chemotherapy and how to prevent it.

These results, also presented at the 2015 European Cancer Congress (ECC2015, abstract # 5BA) today, which involve the group of 1,626 patients with a Recurrence Score between 0 and 10, demonstrated that 99.3 percent of node - negative, estrogen receptor (ER)- positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)- negative patients who met accepted guidelines for recommending chemotherapy in addition to hormonal therapy, had no distant recurrence at five years after treatment with hormonal therRecurrence Score between 0 and 10, demonstrated that 99.3 percent of node - negative, estrogen receptor (ER)- positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)- negative patients who met accepted guidelines for recommending chemotherapy in addition to hormonal therapy, had no distant recurrence at five years after treatment with hormonal therrecurrence at five years after treatment with hormonal therapy alone.

The woman behind the name: In 2001, Nancy R. Gelman lost a 10 - year battle with breast cancer after multiple recurrences and three bouts of chemotherapy.

The first study found that adding Avastin to standard chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel) and continuing with «maintenance» Avastin after chemo actually slowed the time - to - disease recurrence in women with advanced ovarian cancer.

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