Sentences with phrase «safety of the treatment»

Dr. Ponce adds that the next step is evaluating the efficacy and longer - term safety of the treatment, which will not be known until the last patient completes the two - year evaluation later this year.

«While the small - scale study suggests that beta - blockers may reduce the risk of breast cancer returning, more research is needed in this area to determine the effectiveness and safety of the treatment before it can be routinely offered to breast cancer patients.

«The NFL research could focus on safety of the treatment and the potential short - and long - term effects of the procedures,» Matthews said.

Subjects in the clinical trial are being followed closely through office visits and sleep studies to thoroughly assess safety of the treatment.

Current treatments for men are varied, ranging from hormone therapy to acupuncture, but outcomes have been mixed — and safety of some treatments remains in question, Elkins said.

The next stage of the trials will increase the volume of patients and asses the long - term safety of the treatment.

The research, part of a phase I clinical trial to test the safety of the treatment, was published as a letter to the editor in The New England Journal of Medicine earlier this week and will be in the September issue of Human Gene Therapy.

Although the safety of this treatment strategy has not been definitively proven, the combination of the two drugs has not been shown to pose a measurable risk of death.

Because few alternative treatments have been extensively studied, little is known about the safety of these treatments.