Sentences with phrase «with radiation and chemotherapy»

Benedicte is a 40 year old woman who needs her mother to help care for her and her children while she in treatment with radiation and chemotherapy for breast cancer.

Surgery is used to removed the area of the tumor combined with radiation and chemotherapy.

Like other treatment methods, hyperthermia can be used in combination with radiation and chemotherapy.

Hear Dr. Polukhin discuss the benefits of hypnosis and how it is being used to effectively treat a wide range of medical conditions including chronic pain, stress, and the reduction of symptoms associated with radiation and chemotherapy.

Standard treatment for children with medulloblastoma consists of surgery in combination with radiation and chemotherapy.

In these therapies, the patient's own blood - producing bone marrow cells are treated with radiation and chemotherapy, and the blood of a twin or closely matched donor is instilled.

«Based on this research, we are now conducting a first - in - human study combining the PARP inhibitor with radiation and chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, with an ultimate goal of improving survival rates and treatment outcomes,» said Tuli.

Cetuximab is a monoclonal antibody that was previously shown to be beneficial for these patients when combined with radiation and chemotherapy.

As reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in June, the vaccine, together with radiation and chemotherapy, prevented the brain tumor from reemerging after surgery for 12 months as compared with the typical six to seven months with no vaccine.

Although researchers don't yet know exactly why it was effective, Reynolds said preliminary data show that the modified diet also appears to make glioblastoma tumors more sensitive to treatment with radiation and chemotherapy.

Not exact matches

The Duke team collaborated with Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York to devise a chemotherapy and radiation protocol that could be administered at MSK so their son could be close to home.

Traditional therapies for brain cancer — surgery, chemotherapy and radiation — haven't been very successful, says Memorial Sloan Kettering's Dr. Baselga, adding, «We have a tremendous need to develop new therapies, especially with children.»

-- who, before I ended up in the so - called last step, were with me daily as I was being bludgeoned with chemotherapy and radiation and moving around in a daze.

Even with chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation, 90 % of women will suffer a recurrence.

In particular, our pediatric radiation oncologists at Floating Hospital for Children offer special expertise in the management of brain tumors, including medulloblastoma, with a combination of post-operative radiotherapy and multi-agent chemotherapy.

It can be treated with chemotherapy and radiation, but medical experts said it almost always grows back.

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee who was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, has completed his first round of radiation and chemotherapy, his daughter Meghan said.

But while chemotherapy and radiation are associated with temporary changes, such as hair loss and tissue swelling, the treatments can have an unseen, permanent effect: infertility due to irreparably damaged sperm or egg cells.

Unlike conventional chemotherapies and radiation that indiscriminately eradicate fast - growing tissues and ravage people's bodies with side effects, new therapies specifically target tumors using tailored cells from individual patients.

While CAR T cells don't cause the side - effects associated with chemotherapy and radiation, the new approach is not without risks.

For decades most cancers have been treated with a core standard of treatments that include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

All patients receive radiation and chemotherapy, yet despite the aggressive approach, the regimen fails in about one - third of patients with cervical cancer that has spread beyond the cervix but not outside the pelvis.

«In an earlier phase I clinical study, our group has shown that increasing the dose of radiation delivered daily with high precision and using image guidance may offset the need for chemotherapy in improving survival, and it may also improve quality of life measures by reducing treatment periods in half.

With standard treatments of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, the median survival time is only 14.6 months, and improvement will only come with the ability to kill tumor cells resistant to standard treatments, according to Alfredo Quiñones - Hinojosa, M.D., a professor of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the research tWith standard treatments of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, the median survival time is only 14.6 months, and improvement will only come with the ability to kill tumor cells resistant to standard treatments, according to Alfredo Quiñones - Hinojosa, M.D., a professor of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the research twith the ability to kill tumor cells resistant to standard treatments, according to Alfredo Quiñones - Hinojosa, M.D., a professor of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the research team.

Patients with uveal melanoma receive surgery to remove the tumor — and in some advanced cases, the entire eye — as well as radiation therapy or chemotherapy.

Despite improvements in the past few decades with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, a predictably curative treatment for glioma does not yet exist.

Glioblastoma cells with «unmethylated» MGMT tend to be less responsive to chemotherapy and radiation than those that are «methylated.»

The analysis compared patient consultation rates with cancer specialists as well as treatment with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy for white and black patients.

«This is the first prospective and longitudinal study to characterize structural brain changes resulting from standard radiation and chemotherapy in patients with malignant brain tumors.

When the cancer was detected, the children were treated with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.

Study coauthor Ronald Levy, an oncologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, says that physicians generally take their cues from the disease, waiting to see how fast it is moving — and treating it with toxic chemotherapy (sometimes with radiation) only if it becomes aggressive.

By the 1940s — when researchers discovered that a chemical warfare agent, nitrogen mustard, suppressed cancer — chemotherapy with nitrogen mustard and other agents, along with radiation therapy and surgery, began to supplant Coley's toxins.

But for a large portion of elderly patients with localized pancreatic cancer even chemotherapy and radiation therapy are not options.

The approach combines clinical factors and the molecular markers associated with the different medulloblastoma subtypes to guide how radiation and chemotherapy are combined with surgery.

«Chemotherapy and stereotactic ablative radiation consecutively may be promising for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.»

Cognitive impairment can occur in cancer patients who are treated with a variety of therapies, including radiation therapy, hormone therapy, and chemotherapy.

Researchers have found that people with advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and the KRAS - variant inherited genetic mutation have significantly improved survival when given a short course of the drug cetuximab in combination with standard chemotherapy and radiation.

Standard treatment is surgery, followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy with temozolomide.

«These tumors occur in up to 23,000 Americans annually, and are typically treated with surgical resection of the tumor followed by chemotherapy and radiation treatment.»

For patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, the combination of chemotherapy and stereotactic ablative radiation (SABR) may be a promising treatment option, ultimately allowing them to undergo surgery that may not otherwise be an option, according to research presented today at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO's) 56th Annual Meeting.

«Pancreatic cancer is a disease with a poor prognosis, mainly because of the inability to detect the tumor at an early stage, its high potential for early dissemination, and its relatively poor sensitivity to chemotherapy or radiation therapy,» according to background information in the article.

With resection of the tumor — surgical removal — and radiation and chemotherapy, the tumors can go into remission.

Along with the investigational monoclonal antibody, study participants underwent multi-drug chemotherapy, surgery, radiation and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

The trial combines the potent chemotherapy regimen FOLFIRINOX and pinpoint - accurate stereotactic body radiation treatment with an immunotherapy drug called algenpantucel - L from NewLink Genetics.

But, if a child is classified as high - risk, the survival rate falls to approximately 50 percent even with an aggressive treatment plan that includes high - dose chemotherapy, surgery, stem cell transplant, radiation and immunotherapy.

«This clinical trial utilizes some of the best aspects of what we've learned so far with chemotherapy and radiation,» says Gregory Gan, MD, PhD.

Glioblastoma is typically treated with surgery, followed by radiation and chemotherapy.

Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy do prolong survival by several months, but targeted therapies, which have been effective with other forms of cancer, have not lengthened survival in patients fighting glioblastoma.

This phase II trial studies how well chemotherapy and radiation therapy work in treating younger patients with newly diagnosed central nervous system germ cell tumors.

The bright, airy building is stocked with the latest devices for imaging and radiation therapy and includes private chemotherapy rooms, on - site labs, a nutrition center and patient library, among other resources.