Sentences with phrase «treatment of a specific patient»

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The treatment is a type of so - called CAR T - cell therapy — taking a patient's own immune cells, called T cells, genetically manipulating them to attack specific proteins on cancer, and infusing them back into the patient.

Ettinger spearheaded the development of SPAMMY ®, a shelf - stable poultry - based product that is fortified with vitamins and minerals, to help prevent childhood malnutrition in Guatemala, and also championed Hormel Vital Cuisine, a brand new product line that meets the specific nutritional needs of patients undergoing treatment for cancer.

In other words, informed consent REQUIRES enumeration and disclosure of risks SPECIFIC to the individual patient's diagnosis and proposed treatment.

The website does not provide clinical diagnosis or treatment recommendations, or render any opinion concerning the quality of care provided by any specific pediatric dentist to an individual patient.

The following elements of scenario design were standardized across all scenarios: layout of the physical environment, details of the maternal and fetal histories, questions and responses of the standardized pregnant patient, and the time allowed for consultation.American subjects typically presented several treatment options without bias, whereas Dutch subjects were more likely to explicitly advise a specific course of treatment (emphasis on partial life support).

We encourage prospective patients to attend one of our free, monthly seminars where they can meet our physicians and staff, learn about treatment options, ask specific questions, and tour our facility.

* In most cases, the recommendations explicitly state the goal is to compare the effectiveness of treatments and practices in specific patient populations.

The negative PSMA group that received SRT had an 85 percent treatment response (23 of 27), while 65 percent (22 of 34) of the negative PSMA patients not receiving SRT experienced increases in prostate - specific antigen (PSA).

Breast cancer patients may be at an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases including heart failure and may benefit from a treatment approach that weighs the benefits of specific therapies against potential damage to the heart, according to a new scientific statement from the American Heart Association published in its journal Circulation.

The development shows that for the first time, it is feasible for researchers to identify the individual causes of lupus in patients by using DNA sequencing, allowing doctors to target specific treatments to individual patients.

Precision cancer care focuses on identifying the specific biomarkers of a patient's cancer, which can help doctors make decisions about the best treatment options.

Identification of a specific genetic mutation in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) helps clinicians select the best treatment option.

Researchers at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and Houston Methodist have developed an alternative treatment in which virus - specific cells protect patients against severe, drug - resistant viral infections.

Dr Leonardo Guasti added: «It represents an entirely new concept for the study of the adrenal gland as the ability to generate donor - specific and functional adrenal - like cells will facilitate the next generation of cell - based treatments for adrenal insufficiency, the modelling of adrenal specific diseases, and the testing of personalised interventions on cells derived from patients.»

«These data can equip providers and patients with the information they need to have informed conversations regarding non-drug approaches for treatment of specific pain conditions,» said David Shurtleff, Ph.D., deputy director of NCCIH.

Mathias Uhlen, director of the Human Protein Atlas project and co-author of the paper, says: «I am extremely pleased that the resource created through the Human Protein Atlas effort has been used in the analysis of clinical data obtained from liver disease patients and that this analysis has led to the identification of liver - specific drug targets that can be used for treatment of this clinically important patient group.»

In addition, practitioners need to gain a better handle on the interaction between these aspects of specific therapies, overarching «common processes» like positive social support, and patients» lives outside of treatment.

«This is a treatment that will help control seizures in a very specific group of patients who are not otherwise candidates for surgery.

«But one of the strengths of Mayo is the research we do looking across patients at how people with a certain condition respond to a specific treatment.

Monoclonal antibodies, which bind to and neutralize specific pathogens and toxins, have emerged as one of the most promising treatments for Ebola patients.

«For patients worldwide, hiding from the sun for fear of debilitating pain is a fact of life, and for the first time we have an effective treatment for those who suffer from this specific porphyria,» said lead study author Manisha Balwani, MD, Associate Professor of Genetics and Genomics Sciences and Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine.

The test, developed by the UQ Diamantina Institute's Professor Maher Gandhi, can predict how patients with a specific form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma will respond to standard treatment.

«Our results suggest that there are substantial differences between specific antipsychotic agents and between routes of administration concerning the risk of rehospitalization and treatment failure among patients with schizophrenia,» the article concludes.

Thus, based on the robust findings from the current study and until proven otherwise, WBRT may still have an important role for treatment of patients who are not in this specific disease category (i.e., 1 - 3 brain metastases).

«The goal is to not only understand the pathology of these disorders, but to develop new diagnostic methods and treatments down the line, possibly patient - specific bright light therapy.»

Using biopsies of the patients» tumors collected before the start of treatment and at the time patients developed resistance, the researchers performed large - scale genomic analyses to search for mutations specific to the cancer cells in all of each patient's 20,000 genes.

Their findings could help to improve breast cancer prevention by targeting these specific biological mechanisms with cancer therapies in at risk patients and potentially lead the way for a new strategy for the use of preventative treatments.

«GECCO aims to continue to discover additional colorectal cancer - related variants by investigating how genetic variants are modified by other environmental and lifestyle risk factors, including biomarkers as well as how they influence patient treatment response and survival,» Peters said, emphasizing how much further research is required to uncover the specific mechanisms by which genes modulate the intake of certain foods on colorectal cancer risk.

Despite the allocation of all patients in this study to specific treatment, 48 of the 210 ongoing pregnancies (23 %) were achieved by natural conception.

The drug — named mepolizumab — can replace traditional, steroid - based treatments for a specific subset of patients, resulting in improved outcomes and reduced side effects.

Researchers say the test — which detects levels of specific molecules in blood — will help doctors identify which patients arriving in hospital need more intense treatment.

This patient - specific system could provide new insight and options for clinical treatments,» says David Kaplan, Ph.D., chair of biomedical engineering and Stern Family professor at Tufts and co-corresponding author.

Dr. Oren Tessler, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, is part of a team of plastic and reconstructive surgeons who report a high success rate using a method to screen and select patients for a specific surgical migraine treatment technique.

A personal cancer treatment vaccine that targets distinctive «neoantigens» on tumor cells has been shown to stimulate a potent, safe, and highly specific immune anti-tumor response in melanoma patients, report scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Understanding the impact of particular types of ADHD and their effect on motor function could lead to more targeted diagnoses — which could aid in determining optimal treatment options for patients based on their specific symptom profile.

That means that the more likely application of genetic testing in testicular cancer is in diagnosing the level of risk in men yet to develop it, rather than in matching patients to specific treatments.

Further studies would help to confirm the findings, further elucidate the risks and benefits of aspirin use in this patient population, and potentially inform specific guidelines for treatment of patients with diabetes and heart failure.

A customized treatment plan is created for each patient, based on her input and the specific prognostic factors of her breast cancer.

Key features of this innovative technology are that it (1) learns more and more about the stability of the patient's glaucoma with every measurement of eye pressure or visual field, (2) can be personalized to identify the optimal frequency of testing for each individual patient, and (3) would suggest an eye pressure level specific for that particular patient that the care provider would use in the process of recommending treatment.

Together, these resources will form a unique foundation for the discovery of pathogens and pathogenic mechanisms in CFS and the identification of patients who will most likely respond to specific treatments.

Additionally, three patients developed an opportunistic viral infection, and five of the six patients displayed a donor - specific downregulation of the peripheral blood mononuclear cell proliferation assay, not reported in patients without MSC treatment 214.

According to Dr. Carter, the findings suggest that future approaches using clinical assessments to identify the specific type of brain dysfunction contributing to a patient's symptoms may allow a more targeted approach to treatment.

April 4, 2016 Precision medicine brings new hope to those with advanced urothelial cancer Five of six patients with advanced metastatic urothelial cancer and at least one of two specific genetic abnormalities, responded to treatment with afatinib, which was approved in 2013 by the Food and Drug Administration for patients with lung cancer, researchers report online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

By focusing on specific plans for treatment, the book is an invaluable resource for the daily care of cancer patients.

It brings together patients, clinicians and researchers to accelerate the development of individualized asthma treatments based on patient - specific disease markers.

Personalized Molecular Medicine ® is use of genomics and patient specific information to identify optimal treatment for each patient.

As specific examples, our studies seek to define the molecular basis for platelet and endothelial cell responses and then extend these into patients to determine whether newly identified mechanisms can be targets for diagnosis, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Personalised medicine is becoming relevant in the treatment of lung cancer [42, 43] and may have relevance for other lung diseases, like pulmonary fibrosis, asthma and pulmonary hypertension, but disease - related basic research aimed at searching for biomarkers is needed to achieve personalised and patient - specific treatments for lung diseases.

This test, which relies on tumor - specific signatures called biomarkers, will also be used to monitor the progression of a patient's disease during their treatment.

It is the first treatment targeting the underlying cause of CF in a subset of patients with a specific mutation.