Sentences with phrase «standard radiation and chemotherapy»

«This is the first prospective and longitudinal study to characterize structural brain changes resulting from standard radiation and chemotherapy in patients with malignant brain tumors.

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«I hope that someday all of you on the advisory committee can tell your families for generations that you were part of the process that ended the use of toxic treatments like chemotherapy and radiation as standard treatment, and turned blood cancers into a treatable disease that even after relapse most people survive.»

«Cervical cancer patients are currently treated as a uniform group based on chemotherapy and radiation regimens that help the largest percentage of people; however, one third of these patients are not helped by standard therapies,» Banister said.

«iCCA is resistant to standard treatments like chemotherapy and radiation,» said Josep Maria Llovet, MD, Director of the Liver Cancer Program, Division of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and contributing author.

For decades most cancers have been treated with a core standard of treatments that include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

With standard treatments of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, the median survival time is only 14.6 months, and improvement will only come with the ability to kill tumor cells resistant to standard treatments, according to Alfredo Quiñones - Hinojosa, M.D., a professor of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the research team.

In addition, TGen laboratory research also found that PPF increases the effectiveness of a standard - of - care chemotherapy drug called temozolomide (TMZ), and radiation, to treat glioblastoma.

Two patients that had previously not responded to available standard treatments, including surgery, external radiation, hormonal and chemotherapy, have received 225Actinium - PSMA - 617 as experimental therapy.

The 11 evaluable patients enrolled in the brain cancer safety trial received three infusions of vitamin C a week for 2 months followed by two infusions per week for 7 months while receiving standard care radiation and chemotherapy.

Although CSs comprise only 2 % -5 % of all uterine malignancies and 1 % -2 % of all ovarian tumors, they are responsible for a disproportionate number of deaths due to their high biologic aggressiveness and resistance to standard treatments, such as radiation and chemotherapy.

«This is a promising treatment option that may prove not only to be more effective than chemotherapy alone prior to surgery, it may also be better than chemotherapy and standard radiation,» said lead study author Kimmen Quan, MD, a radiation oncologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

The current standard of care for advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma involves chemotherapy and radiation.

Researchers have found that people with advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and the KRAS - variant inherited genetic mutation have significantly improved survival when given a short course of the drug cetuximab in combination with standard chemotherapy and radiation.

The research involves patient volunteers whose cancer has returned or did not respond to standard treatment, which for neuroblastoma includes surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and bone marrow transplants.

Standard treatment is surgery, followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy with temozolomide.

Many standard cancer treatments, including chemotherapy drugs and radiation therapy, damage the DNA of rapidly dividing cancer cells.

«These studies suggest the potential for dramatically reducing the dose of chemotherapy or radiation and thereby reducing the side effects of standard chemotherapy by enhancing the targeting of cancer therapies using HIV receptor blocking drugs.»

Standard treatment for children with medulloblastoma consists of surgery in combination with radiation and chemotherapy.

Currently, the standard of care for early - stage breast cancer is surgery (lumpectomy or mastectomy) followed by radiation and / or chemotherapy.

The current standard of care for a newly diagnosed, high - grade glioma includes surgically removing as much of the tumor as possible, followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

When Brenda Berchtold, 51, was first diagnosed with triple - negative breast cancer in 1986, her treatment options were limited: surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy were the gold standard.

Voice - Box Saved with New Larynx Cancer Therapy Standard therapy changes for larynx cancer, and, the voice box is spared, after Kimmel Cancer Center investigators prove that, for most patients, combined treatment with chemotherapy and radiation has the same success rate as surgically removing the cancerous voice box.

The standard of care for locally advanced, which is usually treated by radiation and chemotherapy combination.

Currently, some of the standard forms of treatment include surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy.

When someone does elect to go under the traditional standard of care and undergo chemotherapy and radiation, these do damage the liver to varying degrees.

Treatment is very much the same too, with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy the standard of care.