Sentences with phrase «use standard chemotherapy»

The new standard of care for these patients is to use the standard chemotherapy plus Rydapt.»

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«I hope that someday all of you on the advisory committee can tell your families for generations that you were part of the process that ended the use of toxic treatments like chemotherapy and radiation as standard treatment, and turned blood cancers into a treatable disease that even after relapse most people survive.»

The researchers then used a combination of existing United States Food and Drug Administration - approved drugs to target autophagy and found ovarian cancer cells to be highly sensitive to these drugs in several different mouse cancer models — even among cells resistant to standard chemotherapy.

If it would be possible to identify tumours that have an aberrantly stabilised SOX9 protein, the drugs tested in this study could be used to prevent tumour spread in these patients and improve their response to standard chemotherapy.

Exploiting the same pre-clinical model used for their studies, the researchers are testing the efficacy of this kind of drug candidates against cancer stem cells, and the possibility of identifying combination regimens with standard chemotherapies with minimized toxic effects, with the perspective of their possible application for the treatment of human breast cancer.

The strong response to this new use of enzalutamide shows that it can provide a viable, less toxic alternative to chemotherapy in staving off the disease in men who aren't responding to standard first line hormonal treatments,» said Tomasz Beer, M.D., the lead author on the study and deputy director of the Knight Cancer Institute at OHSU.

In elderly cancer patients like my father and aunt, who suffer from a variety of chronic health problems, physicians often modify standard treatment regimens — perhaps using two chemotherapy drugs instead of three or lowering standard dosages — in the hope that the revised treatment will work well enough.

In phase 3 trials for adults with high - risk, secondary AML, there was a statistically significant improvement in overall survival compared to patients who received a regimen using chemotherapy drugs delivered in the standard way.

Percentage of total body fat and lean muscle mass was measured directly, using the gold standard of dual - energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) at time of diagnosis, one month later, and later during chemotherapy treatment.

When used alongside standard chemotherapy agents daunorubicin and cytarabine in a treatment - resistant AML model, 99.7 percent of cancer cells were killed.

«PF - 06747143 could potentially be used as a standalone therapy for patients who are not candidates for standard care or used in combination with chemotherapy,» noted Dr. Pernasetti.

The vaccine was tested in a preliminary clinical trial and used with standard chemotherapy and an immune - boosting agent.

«These studies suggest the potential for dramatically reducing the dose of chemotherapy or radiation and thereby reducing the side effects of standard chemotherapy by enhancing the targeting of cancer therapies using HIV receptor blocking drugs.»

If it would be possible to identify tumors that have an aberrantly stabilized SOX9 protein, caused by inactivation of FBW7, the drugs tested in this study could be used to prevent tumor spread in these patients and improve their response to standard chemotherapy.

Lead author Professor Ledermann, professor of medical oncology at the UCL Cancer Institute and a Cancer Research UK grantee, said: «A well - tolerated anti-tumour agent that could be used for months or perhaps years as maintenance therapy after standard chemotherapy could be a big step forward and ultimately extend survival.

A standard treatment for prostate cancer, chemotherapy uses drugs to inhibit the growth of cancer cells.

This drug is ideally used with standard chemotherapy regimens.