Sentences with phrase «recurring after treatment»

It helps prevent the cancer from recurring after treatment, as well as boosts the likelihood of a cure.

For patients with cervical cancer that has recurred after treatment or has spread elsewhere in the body, adding the experimental drug cediranib to standard chemotherapy improves tumour shrinkage and adds a modest improvement in progression - free survival, researchers report at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid.

Those differences could help explain why some cancers recur after treatment.

In some pets ear infections tend to recur after treatment.

Not exact matches

If frozen milk is given to the baby after the treatment, thrush may recur.

The subcutaneous lesion that recurred two months later disappeared after the biopsy with no further treatment.

Women might still need to undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy after their surgery — treatments that are known to reduce the risk of cancer recurring — which could delay their recovery further.

«In this particular case we can see that blood flow tends to decrease in those who will survive longer without symptoms, whereas for those whose symptoms will recur within six months, we saw blood flow to the tumour increase after their treatment.»

Even with treatment, most patients live only about a year after diagnosis, and tumors frequently recur.

Of this high - grade type, about three - quarters will regress after initial treatment but nearly all will recur and need follow - up treatment.

Gene expression profiling tests, such as Oncotype Dx, analyze the patterns of 21 different genes within cancer cells to help predict how likely it is that a women's cancer will recur within 10 years after initial treatment and how beneficial chemotherapy will be to her.

Recently, alterations were found in the ERBB2 gene in lobular breast cancers that recur after initial treatment.

November 15, 2006 Risk after colon cancer higher for very fat and very thin Even after successful treatment for colon cancer, the very obese are about one - third more likely to have their cancer recur and to die prematurely from cancer than those of normal weight, researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh report in the November 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

The following year, the FDA approved Amgen's IMLYGIC ™ (talimogene laherparepvec), a genetically modified oncolytic viral therapy indicated for the local treatment of unresectable cutaneous, subcutaneous, and nodal lesions in patients with melanoma that recurs after initial surgery.

However, patients who don't respond to initial treatment, or whose cancer recurs after a remission, often have a much poorer prognosis.

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.

In 2015, another type of immunotherapy — oncolytic virus therapy — was approved for the local treatment of unresectable cutaneous, subcutaneous, and nodal lesions in patients with melanoma that has recurred after initial surgery.

After Googling horrific images of plantar warts and reading stories of failed medical treatments done by doctors (including cutting recurring warts out to the bone), I decided I would not put my son through that.

Genital warts have no serious impact on my health, it's just a few small warts that go away shortly after treatment (they can recur) and only impacts my dating life.

After treatment the syndrome does not recur if the horse is not over exercised again unless the horse has one of the two other types of tying up.

It may also be evidence of a food allergy if your dog is treated for infection with antibiotics but the infection recurs after you stop the antibiotic treatment.

Cervical cancer can return, or recur, after treatment.

The cost of cancer treatment is considerable and unpredictable, as it can recur even after a successful treatment.

There are also opportunities in case management, improving outcomes for patients with chronic illnesses, especially for some cancer patients who experience recurring bouts of their illness or who experience after affects from treatment.