Sentences with phrase «survival by a few months»

Although recently approved therapies can increase progression - free survival by a few months, «we think this novel screening system has the potential to uncover new, more effective medications that could be targeted more specifically at a patient's cancer,» Lengyel said.

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«The current options for maintenance therapy in the EU are bevacizumab, which can only be given once and improves progression - free survival by just a few months, and the PARP inhibitor olaparib, which is only approved in patients with a germline BRCA mutation (about 10 - 15 % of ovarian cancer patients).

There is no cure, and only one drug modestly extends survival by only a few months.

Only a few studies have evaluated treatment of this disease, and the most successful treatment (to date) that we know of involves a relatively invasive surgery to remove the sac around the heart followed by a course of chemotherapy, leading to survival times averaging about 6 months.

ARK: Survival Evolved has received a slew of updates and additions to the pre-release version by developer Studio Wildcard over the last few months.