Sentences with phrase «results in subsets of patients»

Targeted drugs and combination therapies can drive cancer into remission, as they achieve optimal results in subsets of patients.

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If hypofractionated radiation with curative intent can reduce the treatment time for lung cancer patients by half with no greater toxicity, and with equivalent — if not better — tumor control and survival outcomes, this research could result in a change in the paradigm of how a large subset of locally advanced NSCLC patients are treated.»

The drug — named mepolizumab — can replace traditional, steroid - based treatments for a specific subset of patients, resulting in improved outcomes and reduced side effects.

It was heterozygous in most patients, homozygous in a subset as a result of mitotic recombination, and arose in a multipotent progenitor capable of giving rise to erythroid and myeloid cells.