Sentences with phrase «which subgroups of patients»

«We're definitely encouraged by these results, but we need to optimize the length of treatments, identify which subgroups of patients may benefit most, and determine if this approach works in patients who have nonsomatic forms of the condition that can't be modulated by head and neck maneuvers,» Shore said.

Not exact matches

This imaging approach could also, in the future, help better define which patients with autoimmunity will likely progress to diabetes and classify subgroups of patients who might benefit from different therapeutic strategies.

However, a pre-specified examination of the study's secondary endpoints, which included the rate of heart attacks, revealed that patients who received the methylprednisolone faced a 15 percent greater risk of death or heart attack and a 21 percent greater risk of heart attack alone, a pattern that was consistent across all subgroups.

The authors conclude that FL118 - based therapy may be beneficial for a subgroup of cancer patients with tumors such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia and melanomas, in which MdmX overexpression confers treatment resistance.

One of the most exciting recent advances in clinical cancer research was the discovery that this subgroup of patients respond — sometimes dramatically — to a new class of drugs targeting the MAPK pathway through which BRAF signals.

He added: «The only positive and continuous result was in the subgroup of patients who took more exercise, which means regular exercise at least twice a week, plus the wine consumption.

There were similar results across prespecified subgroups of patients including analyses of PD - L1 expression, which showed hazard ratios in favor of nivolumab.

Not all lung cancers are linked to ALK mutations, so the drug crizotinib, which inhibits the mutant enzyme, is prescribed only for that small subgroup of lung cancer patients.

The study was developed as an extension of the GAIT (Glucosamine / Chondroitin Arthritis Intervention Trial) study, which showed that the combination of glucosamine hydrochloride (1,500 mg / day) and chondroitin sulfate (1,200 mg / day) was effective in a moderate to severe subgroup of patients.