Sentences with phrase «treatment cure rates»

Because treatment cure rates have increased, the population of childhood cancer survivors has also increased.

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Cure rates after antibiotic treatment range between 70 - 90 %.

Cure rates have risen recently, and while effective treatment and cure is paramount, infertility following treatment can be a source of great distrCure rates have risen recently, and while effective treatment and cure is paramount, infertility following treatment can be a source of great distrcure is paramount, infertility following treatment can be a source of great distress.

The primary aim is to investigate the use of targeted therapy using antibodies and antibody - conjugates and remove toxic chemotherapy and radiation from the treatment to maintain high cure rates and decrease late effects.

Whereas ideas about prevention and treatment may vary from doctor to doctor, early detection is the key to successful treatment — when detected early enough, any cancer has a 90 percent cure rate.

Cure rates were very high even for the hardest - to - treat patients: people with liver cirrhosis (96 % cured), people living with HIV using their usual treatment (97 %), people infected with genotype 3 (97 %) including those with cirrhosis (96 %), and people who had been exposed to previous HCV treatments (96 %).

An affordable hepatitis C combination treatment including the new drug candidate ravidasvir has been shown to be safe and effective, with extremely high cure rates for patients, including hard - to - treat cases, according to interim results from the Phase II / III STORM - C - 1 trial presented by the non-profit research and development organisation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) at the International Liver Conference in Paris.

Tailoring the treatment to the specific cancer could make cure rates soar.

Thriving bacteria raise blood levels of the hormone precursor procalcitonin, for example; guiding treatment based on procalcitonin concentrations led to half as much antibiotic use across seven studies, with no drop in cure rates.

Up to half of women with advanced - stage ovarian cancer might be cured, compared to the current 20 per cent survival rate, argues Dr. Steven Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute, who calls for a new standard of treatment for women with late - stage ovarian cancer.

«The advent of new antiviral agents for hepatitis C will shorten treatment duration, likely increasing the number of people offered treatment, and improving cure rates, which are the final two steps of the hepatitis C treatment cascade,» said Yehia.

It's a very difficult treatment, with a cure rate of 50 percent,» said Jeffrey Teckman, M.D., professor of pediatrics and principal investigator of the study at SLU.

Despite treatment with expensive drugs, cure rates were thought to be very low.

There is no cure, vaccine or established drug treatment (one treatment called siRNAs has a high success rate if administered within minutes of infection) and in Africa, often in remote areas, the general approach is containment and palliative care.

Some cancer types, even when cancerous cells have traveled to other areas of the body, such as testicular seminoma and leukaemias and lymphomas in children, can have high cure rates if appropriate treatment is provided.

Together, our researchers are discovering new ways to detect cancers earlier, when cure rates are highest; developing effective treatments with fewer side effects; and learning how to prevent cancers from growing in the first place.

Both treatments are very effective, with roughly an 80 % cure rate, (Herdman et al, 1993; Helminski et al, 2010).

Further, most cancer treatments are based on damaging cancer cells, so understanding why a chemotherapy works, and for which patients, should lead to more effective and less toxic treatments that will increase the cure rate and improve quality of life for cancer survivors.

Gal Shafirstein, DSc, Director of PDT Clinical Research, Professor of Oncology and member of the Cell Stress Biology Department at Roswell Park, points out that PDT treatment is intended to improve the cure rate for cancer.

Where the money goes: Funds benefit research into new therapies to increase survival rates and cure breast cancer, and attempts to streamline the development process for new treatments.

While science continues to make advances each year in its list of verified cures and reliable treatments, there yet remain a sizable number of complaints for which conventional medicine has no answer (or no hard and fast answer, at any rate).

Lead study author Dr. Daniel Lacorazza noted that «acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a type of cancer of the white blood cells common in children... there is about an 80 percent cure rate, but some children don't respond to treatment.

Radioiodine is safe and effective with cure rates approximately 95 - 98 % with one treatment.

The cats with this disorder that have extractions performed earlier in the course of the disease have a greater cure rate and tend not to require further treatment.

«While the survival rate with current treatments is extremely low — about 0 to 2 percent — the cure rate for dogs that have received a bone marrow transplant is at least 30 percent.

Dr. Breakey, Pediatric Hematologist / Oncologist at McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario stated, «this leukemia has an approximately 90 % cure rate with the recommended treatment.