Sentences with phrase «used after chemotherapy»

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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.»

Breastfeeding after chemotherapy has been completed may be possible, either by relactation or as a result of another pregnancy, depending upon the drugs that were used.

Patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer will always progress after chemotherapy, so most patients go on to be treated with immunotherapy, a type of therapy that uses the body's immune system to fight cancer.

A team of researchers at Ligand Pharmaceuticals in San Diego and SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals in Collegeville and King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, wanted to find a mimic of granulocyte - colony - stimulating factor (G - CSF), which is commonly used to boost patients» immune systems after chemotherapy.

These studies will investigate whether Src kinase inhibitors are best used in the adjuvant setting post-surgery or after chemotherapy to prevent the formation of local and distant disease recurrence.

The researchers analyzed the samples using immunohistochemistry and RNA sequencing to study the changes in the tumor immune microenvironment of patients who received and did not receive chemotherapy, and changes before and after chemotherapy.

Progress in prevention and early detection, and the use of chemotherapy after surgery (adjuvant chemotherapy), have achieved significantly increase survival in this disease in the last ten years, but much remains to be done.

Damage of the kind duplicated in the laboratory occurs naturally after exposure to radiation and perhaps also after ingestion of toxic chemicals such as those used in chemotherapy.

Radiation may be used before or after surgery in combination with the 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.

Olaparib is a PARP inhibitor, which is already used to treat certain ovarian cancer patients and prevents damaged cancer cells from repairing themselves after chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

This includes predictive factors, validation of diagnosis specific tools for functional assessment as well as the impact of different surgical techniques and type of chemotherapy used on the incidence of chronic pain after surgery and adjunctive cancer treatment.

Chemotherapy had not been successful after breast surgery so there was little hope it would be of any use now.

Staging used to be done regularly after the initial diagnosis of lymphoma but it has since been found that stage of disease does not impact upon the response to chemotherapy (i.e. it is not true that a stage II will have a better response than a stage IV) and thus there isn't much point to going through the trouble and expense of staging.

With other types of cancers (many sarcomas, carcinomas, etc.) surgery is the first line of therapy and chemotherapy may be used if after surgery the disease is still present microscopically at the surgical site or the cancer is determined to be at high risk for spread (e.g. osteosarcoma).

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If your dog is undergoing chemotherapy or radiation, it is advisable to only use supplements that improve cell strength such as homeopathic natural remedies and anti-oxidants before and after treatment in order to avoid protecting cells that are being killed during treatment.

In particular, people with immunodeficiency, such as AIDS or cancer, or who are undergoing chemotherapy, should use extreme care, especially when handling feces or after administering medications.

To prevent nausea and vomiting by normalizing stomach motility Moves food and hairballs from the stomach into the intestines Prevent esophageal reflux (stomach acid backing up into the esophagus) Used after surgery and during cancer chemotherapy to prevent nausea and vomiting What dogs / cats should not take this medication?

In particular, people with immunodeficiency, such as AIDS or cancer, or who are undergoing chemotherapy, should use extreme care, especially when handling feces or litter or after administering medications.

In this case they are best used during the recovery phase after chemotherapy is completed.

Doxorubicin, a drug commonly used in chemotherapy, can induce DCM after repeated administration.

When tried, this approach is used after surgery, radiation and chemotherapy have been tried.