Sentences with phrase «toxic side effects of treatment»

Active tuberculosis is treatable (and curable), but disease control and treatment adherence are complicated by a variety of factors, including availability of healthcare resources, multidrug - resistant tuberculosis strains and potentially toxic side effects of treatment.

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The authors of the study say that improvements in management, multi-drug chemotherapy, immunotherapies, stem cell transplants, radiotherapy and treatments that have less toxic side - effects have all contributed to the improvement in survival from leukemia.

Not all chemotherapy drugs are equally effective for all people, and finding the best treatment for an individual is a painful process of trial and error that wastes time and exposes patients to toxic side effects.

A team of researchers at the University of Georgia has developed a non-invasive method of delivering drugs directly to cancerous tissue using magnetic forces, a form of treatment that could significantly reduce the toxic side effects of chemotherapy.

Many pharmaceuticals are toxic and side effects are frequent, so research is moving towards a new era of targeted molecular treatments.

The research team noted that this is the first Alzheimer's disease treatment shown to potentially arrest the advancement of pathology and symptoms, with no toxic pharmaceuticals or side effects.

In the treatment of intestinal protozoan infections... drugs are generally so toxic that they can not be administered for prolonged periods of time, whereas GSE can be administered for weeks or months; prolonged treatment being essential for the cure of chronic protozoan infections... I have had some immunosuppressed patients taking the preparation for over a year with no apparent development of side effects or drug resistance.»