| Treatment options for cervical cancer include surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. |
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| He has been battling the disease, and receiving chemotherapy and other treatment, ever since. |
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| Most standard protocols use doxorubicin and cisplatin, with or without high-dose methotrexate, for both induction and adjuvant chemotherapy. |
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| The boy, hairless due to the treatment he has undergone, is in the fifth session of chemotherapy. |
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| This includes staff members in mammography, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, physical medicine, and clinics. |
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| She has now had four seven-hour chemotherapy sessions in an attempt to shrink the cancer. |
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| He received treatment with multiagent chemotherapy that consisted of vincristine, doxorubicin, cyclophosphamide, and prednisone. |
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| She recovered after courses of radio and chemotherapy but found another unconnected indentation in her other breast 12 years later. |
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| The patient was treated with a combined cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisone chemotherapy regimen, resulting in a partial response. |
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| She underwent 6 cycles of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine sulfate, and prednisone chemotherapy and obtained remission. |
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| John Donne, metaphysical poetry, ovarian cancer and chemotherapy might not normally suggest an entertaining night at the theatre. |
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| The patient was then given one cycle of salvage chemotherapy consisting of vinblastine, ifosfamide, and cisplatin without any response. |
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| But after she underwent chemotherapy, minor surgery and radiotherapy, all traces of the tumour disappeared. |
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| That started back around month 2 of chemotherapy, and my oncologist had prescribed some mild sedatives to help in this regard. |
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| Obviously, food selection can have an impact on physical comfort during chemotherapy, when mouth sores and mucositis affect the ability to eat. |
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| He did not need chemotherapy and with the help of colostomy bag could live a normal life. |
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| The youngster starts 10 days of chemotherapy, which will be immediately followed by a life-saving stem cell transplant. |
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| What is not so good is the fact that, due to extensive chemotherapy, my veins have all collapsed. |
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| If you have to have chemotherapy this may reduce your sperm count and cause fertility problems. |
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| Their only hope of fathering children is to store their sperm at a sperm bank before they start chemotherapy. |
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| These may be caused by inflammatory bowel disease, local or systemic malignancy, venereal infection, trauma, tuberculosis, or chemotherapy. |
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| Despite initial pancytopenia and neutropenic sepsis, she has tolerated three cycles of chemotherapy. |
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| Most of these patients also had adjuvant therapy such as external beam radiation, brachytherapy, or chemotherapy. |
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| It is used for canker sores, mouth ulcers resulting from chemotherapy and irritation from braces or dentures. |
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| Radiation and chemotherapy can make you feel tired and sick to your stomach. |
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| Cancer chemotherapy can cause severe nausea, vomiting, and abdominal discomfort, which can limit therapy. |
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| More distressingly the chemotherapy made her give off a particularly unpleasant odour. |
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| The blood vessels feeding the tumor then collapse, trapping the loaded nanoparticle in the tumor, where it slowly releases the chemotherapy. |
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| Certain chemotherapy drugs can damage the pancreas and impair its ability to make insulin. |
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| All cancer treatments including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and surgery have been known to cause fatigue. |
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| The last is particularly common in the elderly and in immunocompromised patients undergoing anti-cancer chemotherapy. |
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| Others have immune systems suppressed by chemotherapy or anti-rejection drugs. |
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| The growing problem of drug resistance to pentamidine and melarsoprol has driven clinicians to consider combination chemotherapy regimens. |
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| We conclude that intravenous infusion of cinchonine might be started 12 hours before chemotherapy infusion. |
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| The patient completed 4 cycles of combination chemotherapy consisting of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine sulfate, and prednisone. |
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| The patient is currently undergoing further evaluation for chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin and prednisone. |
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| Three years after chemotherapy, the Hodgkin disease was in remission, while the paraprotein persisted. |
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| More chemotherapy improved overall survival compared with less chemotherapy, regardless of age. |
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| In this case, the patient had lymphoma and was treated with a single course of chemotherapy. |
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| After the distal pancreatectomy for pancreatic adenocarcinoma, the patient received radiation and radiosensitizing chemotherapy treatments. |
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| In patients with advanced colorectal cancer, chemotherapy is delivered with palliative rather than curative intent. |
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| For people wasting away from the side effects of chemotherapy, this could be a small bit of very good news, indeed. |
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| Surgery and chemotherapy may palliate pain caused by tumor growth and encroachment on normal structures. |
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| Where recurrent disease is responsible for blockage of lymphatic collaterals, chemotherapy may be tried to palliate the symptomatology. |
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| On retirement he worked assiduously as honorary consultant in chemotherapy and cancer care at the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary. |
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| She was immediately started on a course of chemotherapy and a friend advised her to seek treatment from a homeopath. |
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| Prior radiation therapy was acceptable, but prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease was not allowed. |
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| If the cancer has spread, treatment with chemotherapy or radiation therapy may shrink the tumor but not cure it. |
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| Your doctor can help you understand the changes you're about to go through as you start your chemotherapy or radiation treatment. |
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| Conversely, patients whose genes efficiently counteracted chemotherapy and radiation treatment had shorter survival times overall. |
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| The lining of the mouth can become inflamed and ulcers might form during chemotherapy and radiation therapy. |
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| Typically, these cancers respond very well to chemotherapy and radiation therapy. |
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| The patient was discharged to his local hospital with plans for treatment with chemotherapy. |
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| Many patients suffer physical complications, such as infections or toxicity from intensive chemotherapy and radiation treatment, he said. |
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| Children who have had chemotherapy or radiation treatment for a prior cancer episode may also have an increased risk of cancer. |
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| More serious cancers, however, will require radical surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. |
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| The patient underwent preoperative chemotherapy and subsequent radical hysterectomy and bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy. |
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| Surveys of oncologists' choices of treatment for emesis caused by chemotherapy came to divergent results. |
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| Surgery may be followed by chemotherapy, radiotherapy or hormone treatment. |
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| A dry mouth caused by certain drugs or after chemotherapy or radiotherapy to the head and neck may also lead to thrush. |
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| She again had rounds of radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment before being offered a new drug, Arimidex. |
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| He underwent a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy but the cancer was so aggressive it spread to his stomach. |
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| After two major operations, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the disease went into remission. |
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| No further chemotherapy or radiotherapy could be given to control this recurrence. |
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| Palliative radiotherapy or chemotherapy may increase this risk by causing tumours to shrink. |
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| She started on chemotherapy, and then doubled up this treatment with radiotherapy. |
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| The medical oncologist and radiotherapist should arrange the appropriate delivery of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. |
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| If the cancer has spread to the liver or lungs, then chemotherapy is often tried first. |
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| But several weeks later he recalled them to say a tumour had grown and put Mary down for chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a hysterectomy. |
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| The UN Special Committee that vetoes imports to Iraq disallows essential painkillers, such as morphine and other chemotherapy medicines. |
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| Women with breast cancer may benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, or both. |
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| If surgical removal of a tumor is the primary therapy, then chemotherapy or radiation therapy is considered adjuvant therapy. |
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| Music's soothing effects have been demonstrated in patients undergoing chemotherapy or elective surgery under local or regional anesthesia. |
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| The youngster had to undergo treatment which included radiotherapy and chemotherapy. |
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| In one study, arsenic trioxide was given to patients who relapsed after achieving remission with ATRA and chemotherapy. |
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| Radiotherapy or chemotherapy may also be required if the cancer has spread. |
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| She has just begun chemotherapy and her immune system is so ravaged that the most innocuous virus could kill her. |
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| There seemed only a slim chance she would survive but after chemotherapy the cancer went away. |
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| The brave little boy went through six weeks of radiotherapy then another six months of chemotherapy before the cancer was finally killed off. |
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| Medicines are available which reduce the side-effects of chemotherapy such as nausea. |
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| Many cancer cells damaged by chemotherapy can go on to repair their DNA and then reform. |
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| The patient refused additional metastatic workup, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. |
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| Subsequently, he twice developed lymphoma and had to undergo brutal regimes of chemotherapy. |
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| Many chemotherapy treatment regimes, not least those that include methylating agents, are carcinogenic in patients surviving long term. |
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| Moss adds that chemotherapy and radiation deplete antioxidants so severely that it's necessary to take supplements to maintain normal levels. |
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| They have created a cartel in which chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery are the only allowable and reimbursable therapies. |
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| The main treatments for bone cancer are chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery. |
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| About 25 per cent of her business comes from York Hospital, which sends her patients who have lost their hair through alopecia or chemotherapy. |
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| Cancer treatment using chemotherapy or radiotherapy can also make men infertile. |
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| Her treatment was a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy followed by a lumpectomy. |
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| They make a good remedy for anorexia and are well worth using to counteract the nausea often experienced while undergoing chemotherapy. |
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| However, the patient experienced a partial remission, whereas previous chemotherapy treatments alone had had no effect. |
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| David endured gruelling chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment as well as major surgery. |
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| The grapefruit-sized tumor was zapped with chemotherapy, radiation and relentless courage. |
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| These include chemoprophylaxis for patients with latent infection, and strategies for chemotherapy of dually infected individuals. |
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| The patient was treated with standard induction chemotherapy followed by consolidation chemotherapy. |
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| Microtubule drugs are widely used in cancer chemotherapy due to their cytostatic effects. |
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| The treatment of choice is early surgical removal with intensive chemotherapy and radiation therapy to ablate residual microscopic disease. |
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| Lung adenocarcinoma, a non-small-cell lung cancer, tends to resist the effects of chemotherapy. |
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| Combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy resulted in complete resolution of the lesion and a long-term remission of more than 5 years. |
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| The patient did well postoperatively, and chemotherapy consisting of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, adriamycin, and prednisone was initiated. |
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| Many children receive chemotherapy on an outpatient basis at a clinic or hospital. |
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| These include, but are not limited to, central nervous system depressants, corticosteroids, anticonvulsants, and cancer chemotherapy agents. |
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| Lu never used expensive anti-emetic medicine as recommended by doctors, and got through six chemotherapy sessions. |
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| Different chemotherapy drugs may be used alone or in combinations of two or more drugs. |
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| Given alongside chemotherapy, it can reduce the symptoms of leukaemia very quickly. |
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| In some types of cancer, particularly leukaemia, high-dose chemotherapy is used. |
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| Nevertheless, it is not advisable to begin both antiretroviral therapy and combination chemotherapy for tuberculosis at nearly the same time. |
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| Vincristine and vinblastine are powerful antitumour drugs in widespread use in cancer chemotherapy. |
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| When chemotherapy failed to induce remission he made a brave decision not to have any more. |
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| In addition he developed lung cancer, though he seemed to have responded well to chemotherapy. |
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| Some of it is because we use chemotherapy, some of it is because we use radiation therapy. |
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| Even in patients with more localized disease, systemic chemotherapy plays the central role in the treatment. |
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| Additional treatment included localized radiation therapy to the operative site, without systemic chemotherapy. |
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| You will need to visit hospital a number of times to have radiotherapy or chemotherapy. |
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| Usually small cell lung cancers spread quickly, and the best treatment is chemotherapy. |
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| We can offer you treatment with chemotherapy, and I would definitely advise you to accept it. |
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| Beryl now has to make a decision about having chemotherapy because the cancer has spread. |
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| Women who receive chemotherapy may have a change in their periods or menstrual cycles. |
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| The patient, who has not been named, became sterile after undergoing chemotherapy for Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the white blood cells. |
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| This is used less often than surgery and chemotherapy to treat ovarian cancer. |
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| The cerebrospinal analysis shows that the protein was elevated after placing in the intrathecal catheter and administration of chemotherapy. |
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| Adjuvant therapy, multidrug chemotherapy was carried out with methotrexate, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone. |
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| I raised my concern over centralization in the administration of intravenous chemotherapy. |
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| Combination chemotherapy can be used, usually as a combination of intravenous drugs and tablets. |
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| Microsurgery and improved chemotherapy have made treatment less risky, and therefore an option for frail patients. |
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| Cottonwool balls of approximately 3cm diameter were used to measure salivation before and after chemotherapy. |
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| In response, he had additional chemotherapy and an autologous stem cell transplant later that year. |
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| About half in each of these groups were treated with chemotherapy followed by five years of tamoxifen. |
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| During chemotherapy, he learned there also were two malignant lesions on his brain. |
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| To put it in plain English, chemotherapy damages normal cells as well as malignant ones. |
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| Worms, recovered by chemotherapy with niclosamide, consisted of 32 strobilae. |
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| My wife received post-operative chemotherapy from these medical oncologists, seven months after having that metastatic tumour surgically excised. |
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| For instance, the chemotherapy drug methotrexate looks like the B-vitamin folacin, but does not work like it. |
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| There has been an increasing trend to give chemotherapy to almost all young patients with operable breast cancer regardless of lymph node status. |
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| Ginger is often used for nausea after surgery or chemotherapy, and in cases of stomach flu and food poisoning. |
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| It is known that we can safely collect sperm samples for sperm banking up to twenty days after the start of chemotherapy. |
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| But it's very hard work, involving things like lumbar punctures, high-dose chemotherapy, and intramuscular injections. |
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| Nausea, diarrhea, constipation and dehydration may all be side effects of chemotherapy. |
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| Initially, it was hoped the family would jet off to the States this summer but the gruelling chemotherapy sessions have put plans on ice. |
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| In general, chemotherapy is viewed as ineffective, and therefore rarely recommended except by medical oncologists. |
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| She had even been referred by the oncologist for an experimental trial of chemotherapy. |
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| Also, unlike oncological chemotherapy, invasive cardiology or neurosurgery, for example, psychopharmacology is hardly rocket science. |
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| The chemotherapy and radiation therapy that a child undergoes has many harsh side effects. |
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| Advanced stage non-small cell carcinomas and small cell carcinomas are treated by systemic chemotherapy. |
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| Two of the 4 patients with cirrhosis had hepatic infusion chemotherapy and therapeutic occlusion of hepatic arteries. |
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| In both induction and consolidation, chemotherapy drugs are usually injected directly into a vein. |
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| Knowing what changes to the genome make cells cancerous can help oncologists defeat the tumor with tailor-made chemotherapy. |
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| And even when she was in the throes of chemotherapy Brigette wouldn't let her illness get the better of her. |
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| The goal of chemotherapy in people with early cancers is usually to kill the cancerous cells and to cure the condition. |
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| She was wearing a light dressing gown and a pale blue woollen hat because her hair had never grown back after chemotherapy. |
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| You are more likely to get a fungal infection if your immune system doesn't work properly, for example if you have diabetes or lupus, or if you have recently had chemotherapy. |
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| Cassandra, whose hair has already begun to fall out from her court-mandated chemotherapy, could face a similar outcome. |
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| We are still relying on surgery, chemotherapy and other anticancer drugs, and radiation, just as we did 40 years ago. |
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| With chemotherapy, her doctors give her at least an 80 percent chance of survival. |
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| Men and women who become infertile as a result of chemotherapy could also regain their reproductive capabilities. |
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| Six months of the highest dose of chemotherapy his body could withstand and, after that, nothing but hope. |
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| She was offered palliative chemotherapy and radiation therapy. |
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| Photodynamic cancer therapy has advantages over surgery, radiography and chemotherapy because there are no life-threatening side effects involved with the therapy. |
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| There does seem to be some adjunct therapy other than external beam radiation or chemotherapy that may be viable options and may decrease the amount of recurrence. |
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| The drugs are collected from the pharmacy by the specialist chemotherapy nurses and handed to the consultant or to juniors in the consultant's presence. |
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| Acute leukemia frequently has been described as a late complication of chemotherapy with alkylating agents in patients treated for multiple myeloma. |
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| In chemotherapy, the drug has been shown to inhibit the activity of an enzyme essential for the replication of cancer cells, thereby preventing their spread. |
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| Chinese research has proven zedoary's use in reducing cervical cancer and increasing the cancer-killing effects during radiotherapy and chemotherapy. |
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| According to the clinic, there are a number of options, including chemotherapy and other anticancer drugs, corticosteroids, stem cell transplantation, and radiation. |
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| I spoke to goody last fall, two weeks into the chemotherapy that would ultimately prove to be ineffective. |
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| A few years back, Specter underwent extreme rounds of chemotherapy that left him gaunt and hairless. |
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| These three patients show how chemotherapy can sometimes reverse the catastrophic physiological state of terminal cancer, even in seemingly hopeless cases. |
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| When her chemotherapy finished in March 2003 she hoped to regain a normal life but she and her family were devastated when tests revealed she had relapsed. |
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| Hunter will undergo a CT scan to assess the extent of his cancer on Tuesday, and also said he planned to bank sperm before beginning his chemotherapy. |
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| It would also help men too ill to bank sperm before chemotherapy. |
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| I received eight rounds of intravenous chemotherapy and 25 zaps of radiation. |
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| I had gone to conventional medical doctors and had received chemotherapy. |
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| She is given eight months of intensive chemotherapy, a slim chance of reprieve, and an excellent opportunity to provide medicos with ruthless experimentation. |
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| The patient received palliative radiation to the neck and systemic chemotherapy, but she died of widely metastatic disease approximately 2 years after the thyroidectomy. |
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| He began chemotherapy and took drugs to combat the KS, which made him feel sick. |
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| Certain kinds of chemotherapy, administered to patients with lymphoma and breast cancer, can produce secondary bladder cancer. |
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| They block the lock and key mechanism for the nerve transmitter serotonin and are effective treatments for the nausea induced by cancer chemotherapy. |
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| Teratoma patients are mostly treated with chemotherapy, which requires being in hospital for a few days every three weeks to be injected with chemicals. |
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| Whereas diarrhea and fever are common toxicities associated with high-dose chemotherapy, it is likely that many cases of typhlitis go unrecognized. |
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| Indeed, from the battlefields of WWI came the entire discipline of cancer chemotherapy. |
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| In fact, an increase in both spontaneous chromosome breakage and sister chromatid exchange after chemotherapy treatment has been reported by several authors. |
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| Children who are neutropenic secondary to cancer chemotherapy are usually admitted to the hospital for treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics when they develop a fever. |
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| In men, chemotherapy can cause a lowered sperm count or even sterility. |
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| A 49 year old man with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder received chemotherapy with cisplatin, methotrexate, and vinblastine after resection of a tumour. |
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| To accommodate patients getting chemotherapy at odd hours, Hrushesky used a pump that operated automatically. |
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| Adjuvant chemotherapy may produce diarrhea, mucositis or stomatitis, myelosuppression, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, hair thinning, taste changes and skin and nail changes. |
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| After his sixth course of chemotherapy on Monday doctors at Pendlebury will discover whether the tumour on his spine is operable and if he will be able to walk again. |
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| Dr Mike Sullivan talks to us about late effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and also about things that were all under the theme of survivorship after cancer. |
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| After the end of chemotherapy, an increase of parasitism was detected. |
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| The authors conclude that postsurgical chemotherapy that includes cisplatin increases the five-year survival rate in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer. |
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| In patients with metastatic disease that does not respond to radiotherapy or chemotherapy, immunotherapy may offer an additional form of cancer control. |
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| Despite surgical resection and chemotherapy, the patient's condition deteriorated during the next month and he died of inanition and cardiac failure. |
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| Most scientists working with the new inhibitors and monoclonal antibody treatments acknowledge they will be used in combination with chemotherapy for years yet. |
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| She had just been diagnosed with inoperable rectal cancer and faced months of chemotherapy and biological therapy plus the annoyance of having an ileostomy. |
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| The large number of irregular densities found throughout the tumor are from the injection of Lipiodol, an oily iodinated agent to carry the chemotherapy agents into the tumor. |
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| Cancer patients are prone to cross infection and their reduced immunity, which is a common side effect of chemotherapy, means many patients require single room facilities. |
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| Most patients in the Danish study were treated with cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil chemotherapy, the dose and schedule of which have been criticised. |
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| Studies done on mice suggest that astragalus enhances tumor cell destruction, and helps protect against the damaging effects of chemotherapy and radiation. |
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| When chemotherapy took her hair from her she once donned a Rastafarian wig, and we all laughed at the hair gone by and her gameness in donning such an unlikely wig. |
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| The patient was treated with induction chemotherapy using daunorubicin and cytarabine and with consolidation therapy with cytarabine and intrathecal methotrexate. |
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| Combined chemotherapy, including cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin, and prednisolone, was performed on the basis of clinical diagnosis as a lymphoma relapse. |
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| The patient was started on chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and dacarbazine administered as a continuous 7-day infusion, repeating every 21 days. |
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| He was treated with high-dose chemotherapy, including arabinosylcytosine, daunorubicin, and etoposide, followed by autologous peripheral stem cell transplant. |
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| In advanced cases, appropriate chemotherapy improves average survival over supportive care alone, as well as improving quality of life. |
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| The Company's lead compound, CoFactor, is a biomodulator of 5-fluorouracil, a widely used cancer chemotherapy. |
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| Bilateral partial syndactyly, associated with chemotherapy plus radiotherapy. |
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| In addition to ATRA and chemotherapy, use of arsenic trioxide has also shown effectiveness in improving patient prognosis. |
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| Najat Abdulkhabeer Mokbel Al Ariki is talking about the amount of money her sister's chemotherapy costs. |
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| Delayed repeated intraperitoneal chemotherapy after cytoreductive surgery for colorectal and appendiceal carcinomatosis. |
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| Then, chemotherapy was added to destroy small tumor growths that had spread beyond the reach of the surgeon and radiotherapist. |
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| Kytril is a sterile injectable antinausea medication used by cancer patients receiving chemotherapy or radiation. |
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| Emetic potential of the chemotherapy and the prophylactic use of antiemetics each appeared to contribute to the overall severity of symptoms. |
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| Although ineffective, anthracic line based chemotherapy was often used in an attempt to slow the progression of the disease. |
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| In the absence of chemotherapy, there was an 80 percent chance of relapse. |
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| He was recovering from a particularly difficult round of chemotherapy. |
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| In December 2001, Pinter was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer, for which, in 2002, he underwent an operation and chemotherapy. |
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| Others, she says, wait until their 84th round of chemotherapy. |
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| Unlike chemotherapy, the cutting-edge treatment, Xeloda only targets abnormal cells, leaving healthy tissues alone. |
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| Cisplatin falls into the category of chemotherapy agents called alkylating agents. |
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| Myelosuppressive chemotherapy often upsets the patient's white blood cell count, leading to febrile neutropenia. |
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| Each was combined with the two chemotherapy drugs adriamycin and cyclophosphamide. |
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| Eight months of intensive chemotherapy with Adriamycin, Cytoxin, Taxol, and Herceptin followed. |
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| The chemotherapy regimen was ifosfamide, vincristine and actinomycin, as per the IRS protocol. |
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| The nanocage is filled with a medicinal substance, such as a chemotherapy drug or bactericide. |
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| She had suffered a short illness due to pancreatic cancer, for which she had refused chemotherapy and radiotherapy. |
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| Current therapy includes ATRA, either alone or in combination with chemotherapy, arsenic or bone marrow transplantation. |
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| Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs. |
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| Palliative care when added to usual cancer care benefits people even when they are still receiving chemotherapy. |
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| The side effects of the treatment course, which involves surgery, craniospinal radiation therapy and intensive chemotherapy, are considerable. |
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| Non-toxic sensitization of cancer chemotherapy by combined vitamin C and K3 pretreatment in a mouse tumor resistant to Oncovin. |
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| Adjuvant chemotherapy for people with stage IB cancer is controversial, as clinical trials have not clearly demonstrated a survival benefit. |
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| Adjuvant chemotherapy refers to the use of chemotherapy after apparently curative surgery to improve the outcome. |
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| The patient was referred to medical oncology and adjuvant chemotherapy of 6 cycles of CAV, alternating with 6 cycles of VP-16 ifosamide. |
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| For potentially curable SCLC cases, chest radiotherapy is often recommended in addition to chemotherapy. |
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| Efficacy and safety of trabectedin or dacarbazine for treatment of patients with advanced leiomyosarcoma or liposarcoma after prior chemotherapy. |
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| The patient was started on induction chemotherapy with ATRA along with Decadron and Indarubicin. |
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| Wilms' tumor 1 gene expression in hepatocellular carcinoma promotes ceil dedifferentiation and resistance to chemotherapy. |
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| He underwent another operation on his parotid gland in December before beginning a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in New York. |
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| Implanting the wafer into the brain following surgical removal of malignant glioma allows direct delivery of chemotherapy to the tumor site. |
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| Pegfilgrastim requires only one injection per chemotherapy trial, whereas the original drug, filgrastim, had to be injected daily for 2 weeks. |
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| As chemotherapy often causes irreversible damage to the ovaries, one was removed and frozen. |
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| Common treatments include palliative care, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. |
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| Cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy with peritoneal spread of cystadenocarcinoma. |
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| Current treatment of PMP includes total urethrectomy, partial cystectomy, and peritonectomy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. |
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| Vitamin B complex, ursodeoxycholic acid, silimarin, and sucralfate were prescribed to reduce side effects of chemotherapy. |
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| Also known as ground hemlock, the plant contains paclitaxel, a compound used to make Taxol, the best selling chemotherapy drug in the world. |
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| Our goal is to determine the dynamic equilibrium of chemotherapy drugs and HIA during hematopoiesis. |
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| Ondansetron is a medication currently used to treat nausea and vomiting, often following chemotherapy. |
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| One well-studied lignan, podophyllotoxin, is so effective at targeting cancer cells for destruction it has been modified for use in chemotherapy. |
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| Mrs Williams, a nonidentical twin, underwent chemotherapy and lost weight and her hair as a result. |
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| This effect can be utilizing during chemotherapy as it can limit the risk of neutropenia and neutropenic fever. |
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| Uncaria tomentosa reduced the neutropenia caused by chemotherapy and was also able to restore cellular DNA damage. |
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| The chemotherapy drug, arsenic trioxide, is packed into a very tiny Trojan horse called a nanobin. |
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| Analysis of non-atretic quiescent and growing follicle numbers revealed that immature follicles were gradually lost after chemotherapy. |
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| Enucleation or exenteration was performed after two cycles of chemotherapy. |
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| Additionally, because chemotherapy may be hepatotoxic or nephrotoxic, baseline liver and renal function tests should almost always be performed. |
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| Addition of ifosfamide and etoposide to standard chemotherapy for Ewing sarcoma and primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the bone. |
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| Etoposide and cisplatin chemotherapy for metastatic good-risk germ cell tumors. |
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| This opens the door for combined studies of hyperthermia with radiation, chemotherapy or interferon,' he says. |
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| Adjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer patients induces temporary salivary gland hypofunction. |
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| This all added up to one in three patients saved from chemotherapy through the genomic transcriptional profiling. |
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| He needs chemotherapy drugs put through a chest tube and he swallows five syringes of medicine nightly too. |
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| There is still a medical need for a better prevention of nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy treatments. |
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| I double check the chemotherapy before administration with the nurse manager and administer the drug at the scheduled time. |
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| Previously, researchers had hypothesized that the inhibition of checkpoints enhanced the effects of DNA-damaging chemotherapy on cancer cells. |
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| Treatment includes surgical removal of the thymus, called a thymectomy, usually followed by chemotherapy and radiation. |
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| Cancers of bone marrow may be treated with chemotherapy, and other forms of targeted therapy such as immunotherapy may be used. |
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| Thirteen previous patients who received filgrastim and chemotherapy for mobilization were used for comparison as the control group. |
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| Patients with nonresectable locally advanced or metastatic disease received chemotherapy with or without radiotherapy. |
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| Effects of lithium on thrombopoiesis in patients with low platelet cell counts following chemotherapy or radiotherapy. |
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| Now, Teicher and her colleagues have discovered striking differences between chemotherapy resistance in vivo and in vitro. |
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| Adjuvant chemotherapy, Carbone conjectured, could be the surgeon's little helper. |
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| Thus, thrombopoietins are active in diseases with BM megakaryocyte mass such as ITP and thrombocytopenia following nonmyeloablative chemotherapy. |
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| The drug, megakaryocyte growth development factor or MGDF, was being tested in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. |
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| After one cycle of high-dose methotrexate and cytosine arabinoside chemotherapy, he received radiotherapy to the mediastina. |
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| Seminomas are sensitive to both radiation and chemotherapy, whereas nonseminomatous TGCT respond to chemotherapy only. |
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| The patient had a history of Hodgkin lymphoma treated by 8 sessions of bleomycin chemotherapy 1 year before his hospitalization. |
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| Chabner and Longo present 37 papers detailing the current knowledge related to cancer chemotherapy and biotherapy. |
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| Veteran rock jock Randy Raley is undergoing chemotherapy for a blood disorder, and will continue treatments until at least May. |
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| Saddest sight was Jade Goody on holiday with her boys having to wear a bathing cap because she is undergoing chemotherapy. |
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| Naturally occurring ribozymes may be used in chemotherapy, but they are large, expensive, and fragile RNA molecules. |
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| The patient was to under go a mastectomy, lymph node dissection, and high dose chemotherapy with blood stem cell refusion. |
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| Common treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. |
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| I was told last week, after the final chemotherapy session at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital, that there is no sign of the cancer in my spine or brain stem. |
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| Since her diagnosis Paige has been undergoing an intensive course of chemotherapy which involves her visiting the hospital as a day case patient every week. |
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| The 25-year-old was diagnosed with nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's lymphoma last October, but was given the all-clear in June after completing a course of chemotherapy. |
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| Nevertheless, due to their ability to inhibit DNA transcription and replication, other similar toxins are also used in chemotherapy to inhibit rapidly growing cancer cells. |
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| Emitasol is being developed globally for use in treating chemotherapy induced emesis and diabetic gastroparesis, a digestive disorder occurring in diabetic patients. |
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| It has been suggested in the literature that a history of bleomycin chemotherapy is a contraindication to the use of nitrous oxide-oxygen inhalational sedation. |
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| He returned to Seattle, Washington, USA, for treatment consisting of 5 cycles of chemotherapy, followed by right hemicolectomy and right hepatectomy. |
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| The race was sponsored by Erke sportswear and its proceeds will go toward improving cancer centers and hospitals, where hundreds of children are undergoing chemotherapy. |
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| The patient was treated with five cycles of BEACOPP chemotherapy. |
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| Osteoporosis is one such potential complication that can result from treatment with alkylating agents and the steroids that are often given with chemotherapy. |
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| In regard to chemotherapy, the most important decision facing surgeons attempting curative resections of primary soft tissue sarcomas is the use of neoadjuvant therapy. |
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| The authors analyzed patient tumors from the I-SPY 1 TRIAL, a clinical trial that measured tumor gene expression patterns and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. |
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| More recently, the AMC trial 010 was unable to show that HIV-positive people benefited from the addition of Rituximab to a standard chemotherapy regimen. |
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| Armstrong credits his illness with enabling him to compete in the grueling event, as a result of weight loss associated with his chemotherapy treatments. |
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| However, if you had advanced disease to begin with and had to have treatment such as chemotherapy first, you may be referred to a urologist afterwards for orchidectomy. |
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| Intraperitoneal hyperthermic perfusion chemotherapy of patients with chemotherapy-resistant peritoneal disseminated ovarian cancer, Int J Gynecol Cancer. |
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