Sentences with phrase «standard tumor therapy»

Albeit still limited in efficacy, angiogenesis - inhibiting drugs have become part of standard tumor therapy supporting the efficacy of established chemotherapies.

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The Moores Cancer Center's Molecular Tumor Board brought together medical, surgical and radiation therapy oncologists, biostatisticians, radiologists, pathologists, clinical geneticists, basic and translational science researchers, and bioinformatics and pathway analysis specialists to discuss the intricacies of tumor genetics and tailor a personalized treatment plan for patients with advanced cancer or who have exhausted standard theraTumor Board brought together medical, surgical and radiation therapy oncologists, biostatisticians, radiologists, pathologists, clinical geneticists, basic and translational science researchers, and bioinformatics and pathway analysis specialists to discuss the intricacies of tumor genetics and tailor a personalized treatment plan for patients with advanced cancer or who have exhausted standard theratumor genetics and tailor a personalized treatment plan for patients with advanced cancer or who have exhausted standard therapies.

No targeted therapy has been approved for noninflammatory and inflammatory triple - negative breast cancer tumors, and the standard of therapy for these tumors is a combination of conventional cytotoxic chemotherapeutic agents.

The Phase I clinical trial of OMP - 54F28 (FZD8 - Fc) is an open - label dose escalation study in patients with advanced solid tumors for which there was no remaining standard curative therapy.

The finding, reported by a Stand Up to Cancer - Prostate Cancer Foundation Dream Team in the May 21 edition of the journal Cell, is based on an analysis of tumor samples from 150 men with metastatic prostate cancer that no longer responded to standard hormone - blocking therapy.

A randomized phase III trial finding that a new monoclonal antibody, elotuzumab, added to standard therapy, extended the duration of remission for patients with relapsed multiple myeloma by about five months Findings from two phase III studies showing that children with Wilms tumor who have a specific chromosomal abnormality do better with a more intensive, augmented chemotherapy regimen

Research on metastatic colorectal cancer and sarcoma, however, suggests a potential benefit from adding local therapy — treatment directed specifically at the tumor cells — to the standard approach of systemic therapy.

EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy is approved for EGFR activating mutation positive patients with advanced NSCLC, but the standard for determining mutation status is with DNA derived directly from tumor tissue, which can be limited or not available.

Loeb points out that much of the concern over cancer risk is that, as part of standard therapy for advanced prostate cancer, tumor growth is decreased by drugs that drastically reduce rather than increase male hormones.

Two case studies provide an important potential new avenue for treatment of these types of tumors, which are resistant to traditional radiation therapies and difficult to manage even with surgery, the current standard of care.

Avastin is a drug that is known to shrink brain tumors and is a standard therapy for recurrent GBM.

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.

Surgery — the standard therapy for treating hepatoblastoma and other liver tumors is surgery to remove the tumor.

Even with the standard - of - care therapy of amputation and chemotherapy, the prognosis is poor, with most dogs dying due to tumor spread (metastasis) within one year, and less than 20 % surviving to 2 years following diagnosis.