Sentences with phrase «small subgroup of patients»

Prevalence, assessment and diagnosis: NMDA receptor antibodies are found in a small subgroup of patients with first - episode psychosis, but their clinical relevance is unknown

NMDA receptor antibodies are found in a small subgroup of patients with first - episode psychosis, but their clinical relevance is unknown

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We can not make robust conclusions because the subgroup of patients with negative EGFR was very small, but the hypothesis generated here is that those tumours do not respond well to necitumumab.»

«Our study is small, retrospective and all of the patients were located at a single medical center, but it demonstrates that it's possible to use molecular diagnostics to identify subgroups of patients more likely to respond to a given treatment,» said co-first author John Paul Shen, MD, senior clinical fellow and postdoctoral fellow.

Not all lung cancers are linked to ALK mutations, so the drug crizotinib, which inhibits the mutant enzyme, is prescribed only for that small subgroup of lung cancer patients.

It was small, and the findings can't be applied to certain subgroups of patients who were excluded from the study (such as those with severe depression who may be suicidal), to primary care settings, to forms of dementia other than Alzheimer's, or to other types of antidepressants.