Sentences with phrase «recurs after initial treatments»

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

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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.

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.

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.