Sentences with phrase «time after chemotherapy»

Loss of either GSTO1 or RYR1, the researchers report, decreased the number of cancer stem cells in the primary tumor, blocked metastasis of cancer cells from the primary tumor to the lungs, decreased the duration of chemotherapy required to induce remission and increased the duration of time after chemotherapy was stopped that the mice remained tumor - free.

Not exact matches

This time, she was given different chemotherapy — docetaxel and gemcitabine — as it was assumed that her cancer had grown resistant to the previous drugs, and, after several weeks, the tumours had shrunk right down.

«Mesothelioma remains a difficult disease to find better treatment options for, so we asked whether high - dose hemithoracic radiotherapy would decrease the rate or delay the time of local recurrence after chemotherapy and radical surgery,» says lead author Prof Rolf A. Stahel, from the Clinic and Policlinic for Oncology, at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, and current President of the European Society for Medical Oncology.

After undergoing chemotherapy and the Whipple surgical procedure, Bluemke and her husband are now finding time for fun at their new oceanfront condo in Florida.

The first study found that adding Avastin to standard chemotherapy (carboplatin and paclitaxel) and continuing with «maintenance» Avastin after chemo actually slowed the time - to - disease recurrence in women with advanced ovarian cancer.

The effects of chemotherapy and radiation often subside after a period of time, and the testicles may return to normal function.

This is usually temporary, and the testicles could return to more normal function some time after the radiation or chemotherapy has been completed.

Recently, a median survival time of 7 months was reported for dogs receiving radiation therapy along with chemotherapy; whereas a combination of surgery and chemotherapy showed more encouraging median survival rates of 235 - 366 days with up to 28 % surviving two years after diagnosis.

Median survival time after surgery alone is reported to be 2 - 3 months, with the addition of chemotherapy increasing the median survival time to 4 - 6 months.

Owners must be willing to return to UW Veterinary Care one week after initiation of chemotherapy, as well as at the time of relapse.

I give a patient chemotherapy an the tumor volume shrinks by 10 %, but I know the doubling time is 4 weeks, so after 3 and a half months I can claim I have killed 100 % of the tumor.

Cancer treatments like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and steroid therapy sometimes weaken the immune system and limits the effectiveness of vaccinations received while the cancer patient is receiving treatment and for some time after.