Sentences with phrase «with aggressive therapy»

With aggressive therapy, some of these cats do recover from the poison.
His long term prognosis is guarded; I have had a number of pets with renal failure live several years with aggressive therapy as was prescribed for Pele.
With aggressive therapy, mortality rates are reduced to 5 - 20 %.
Unlike ER - positive cancers that respond well to treatment, those that are drug - resistant spread elsewhere in the body even with aggressive therapy.
Estimated mortality rates are 100 % without treatment in young kittens — and even with aggressive therapies are over 90 %.

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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.
giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.
Prof. Severine Vermeire (KU Leuven / UZ Leuven): «In the future, gut bacteria may be used to help identify PSC patients with a more or less aggressive disease, or patients that may benefit from microbiota - based therapies, such as fecal microbiota transplantation or targeted pre - and probiotics.»
In 2014, new combination therapies to treat patients with metastatic melanoma hit the market, helping extend the lives of those with this aggressive disease.
«This study forms the basis for future research in patients with breast cancer and offers hope for targeted therapy for patients with aggressive triple - negative inflammatory breast cancer,» said lead researcher Mateusz Opyrchal, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Oncology at RPCI.
And it may be possible to enhance the power of talking therapy with a new computer - based technique designed specifically to combat aggressive voices, which looks promising from a small pilot study.
Psychological conditions associated with being unmarried and potentially more aggressive follow - up and therapy needs to be considered in future studies.
Cancers with Ras mutations are aggressive and respond poorly to standard therapies.
This is especially concerning because radiation therapy is increasingly being used after mastectomy as a way to further reduce the risk of the cancer returning in women with more aggressive or advanced disease.
Twenty years ago few oncologists would have attempted aggressive therapies with 90 - year - olds.
A new population - based study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston showed for the first time that exposure to testosterone therapy over a five - year period was not associated with an increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer.
It is commonly thought that bladder cancers that develop after pelvic radiation tend to be aggressive, with high grades and stages, but this study found that the types, grades, and stages of bladder cancer that developed were similar in patients treated with and without radiation therapy.
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, which edits a cancer patient's T cells to recognize their tumors, has successfully helped patients with aggressive blood cancers but has yet to show the ability to treat solid tumors.
Oncologists have long known that in rare cases, after patients receive radiation therapy to shrink a tumor, the immune system will mount an aggressive response that wipes out not only the tumor, but metastases throughout the body that hadn't been treated with the radiation.
Since most men with prostate cancer have indolent (non-aggressive) disease for which conservative therapy or surveillance would be appropriate treatment, the clinical challenge is not only how to identify those with prostate cancer, but also how to distinguish those who would benefit from surgical or other aggressive treatment from those who would not.
More precise dosing methods and cellular engineering techniques show promise in the effort to improve treatment of aggressive cancers with personalized cellular therapies, according to new studies from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
This is the first population - based study to compare the follow - up intensity of American men with prostate cancer who have not undergone aggressive treatment with those who opted to undergo various forms of aggressive therapy, such as surgery and radiation.
More DMD patients could live longer with more aggressive medical therapy and other treatments, said Dr. Mammen, whose research investigates the molecular mechanisms underlying heart failure.
In the era of personalized cancer therapy, patients with TNBC remain at considerably higher risk of relapse and death than patients with other breast cancer subtypes, due to the aggressive nature of TNBC and the lack of newer targeted therapies for the disease.
And while life expectancy has increased with better therapies, surgeries, and more aggressive treatment of identified risk factors, depression has come under increasing scrutiny as a risk factor that could make a difference, if properly treated.
CAR T - cell therapy shows significant remission rates for those with aggressive B - cell lymphoma
Scope: 22 institutions Treatment: CD19 - targeting CAR T - cell therapy Results: 42 % of patients with aggressive large B - cell lymphoma remained in remission after 15 months
Combination anti — PD - 1 and anti — CTLA - 4 treatment may be the preferred approach in those who are able to tolerate more aggressive therapies, given the higher response rates observed compared with single - agent checkpoint blockade.
A small, phase 1 trial, published early online in the journal Radiology, found that this approach, designed to treat just the diseased portion of the prostate rather than removing or irradiating the entire gland, is safe and can be performed without the troubling complications associated with more aggressive therapies.
Scientists exploit gene therapy to shrink tumors in mice with an aggressive form of breast cancer.
This gene finding may allow scientists to identify patients with this aggressive form of the cancer and target them with additional therapies.
Despite aggressive therapy with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, long - term survival for HGG patients remains less than 20 percent.
We treat our patients with the latest scientific advances and develop new, more effective and less aggressive therapies.
December 13, 2011 Molecular markers can predict spread of cancer, guide treatment Molecular markers found in cancer cells that have spread from a primary tumor to a limited number of distant sites can help physicians predict which patients with metastatic cancer will benefit from aggressive, targeted radiation therapy.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Although men with prostate cancer usually respond to standard treatment with hormone therapy or chemotherapy, many will eventually experience progression or recurrence despite treatment — particularly those with high - risk or aggressive forms of the disease.
In the most aggressive form of the cancer — grade 4 — patients can live for about a year with the full complement of therapies, Subramaniam said.
Sometimes, I had gentle therapy and other times I had more aggressive therapy with weights to build up strength; PT helped but the pain always came back.
Dr. Dominic D'Agostino, who researches metabolic therapy with his team at the University of South Florida, found that when carbohydrates were removed from the diets of lab mice, they survived extremely aggressive metastatic forms of cancer.
Treatment may include aggressive fluid therapy with monitoring urinary output, vasopressors, pain control (aggressive pain control may be warranted), antioxidants such as N acetylcysteine, diphenhydramine, anti-seizure medications, oxygen, gastroprotectants and transfusions.
Overall, patients tolerate this therapy well, although this is an aggressive therapeutic option with risks from anesthesia, radiation side effects, and infection.
In severe cases of pyometra, aggressive antibiotic therapy along with excellent nursing care (possibly including fluid therapy) is the best course of action.
An aggressive strategy to enhance the profile of the shelter, along with the introduction of community outreach programs — such as the K9 Companion Pet Therapy Program, which supports volunteer therapeutic visits to hospitals, long - term care homes and seniors» homes — have truly established a new connection to the community.
Treatment for panleukopenia would include aggressive IV fluid therapy with crystalloids to replace water and electrolytes, and colloids to compensate for protein loss.
Dog Studies CANCER Novel Therapies Common heart medications as an effective adjunct therapy for dogs with hemangiosarcoma, an aggressive and deadly cancer.
Despite the severity and scariness of any cancer diagnosis, some dogs with nasal adenocarcinoma can be well - managed with timely detection and aggressive therapy and may live happily for months or even years.
There are several ways to manage pain in our pets from non-invasive therapy laser (discussed above) to more aggressive multi-modal therapies where medications can be combined with supplements and environmental changes.
Most dogs with CPV infection recover if aggressive treatment is used and if therapy is begun before severe septicemia and dehydration occur.
While digital SCC is typically cured with surgery alone, digital melanomas are typically more aggressive requiring both surgery and systemic therapy to achieve long - term tumor control.
Most of the time bowel obstructions need to be removed through surgery and peritonitis will need to be treated with aggressive antibiotic therapy.
Hospitalization is required, with aggressive IV antibiotics and fluid therapy.
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