Chemotherapy in a sentence

After Callum’s first block of chemotherapy, the consultant gave the welcome news that Callum was in remission but the now seven-year-old must continue with chemotherapy for two years to keep the cancer at bay.

The average "progression-free survival" was 6.2 months with pegargiminase-chemotherapy, compared with 5.6 months among patients who had the placebo and chemotherapy, researchers said.

Barenholz was working to develop liposome-based technology for the safe conduction of chemotherapy drugs in hopes of finding a way to bypass chemotherapy’s debilitating side effects.

Repotrectinib combined with chemotherapy demonstrated increased anti-tumor activity compared to chemotherapy alone in an ALK-mutant neuroblastoma PDX model.

If you're a cancer patient on chemotherapy, it may not be as effective, the chemotherapy.

Adjuvant chemotherapy refers to the use of chemotherapy after apparently curative surgery to improve the outcome.

Consolidation treatment often entails a repetition of induction chemotherapy or the intensification chemotherapy with additional drugs.

Folic acid supplements have little established role in cancer chemotherapy. citation citation There have been cases of severe adverse effects of accidental substitution of folic acid for folinic acid in patients receiving methotrexate cancer chemotherapy.

The advisory recommended caution in using these agents in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy or off chemotherapy, and indicated a lack of clinical evidence to support improvements in quality of life or transfusion requirements in these settings.

These micrometastases can be treated with adjuvant chemotherapy and can reduce relapse rates caused by these disseminated cells. citation * Maintenance chemotherapy is a repeated low-dose treatment to prolong remission.

This variability is typical with many chemotherapy drugs dosed by BSA, and, as shown below, was demonstrated in a study of 14 common chemotherapy drugs.

This was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in January 2005 for the treatment of breast cancer after failure of combination chemotherapy for metastatic disease or relapse within six months of adjuvant chemotherapy.

According to the Philippine Cancer Society, this type of treatment is currently most often used along with chemotherapy.

A chemotherapy drug called cisplatin is widely used to treat many cancers, especially in children.

After 30 years eluding capture while still running much of the Mafia's affairs, he was arrested Monday at a clinic, where the convicted mobster was receiving chemotherapy.

After a long course of chemotherapy, Sam was cancer free for four years and was able to live a normal life but for check-ups every six months.

After failed attempts at chemotherapy, Ms Kolodynski was told her only treatment option was a gruelling 16-hour surgery to remove the organs from around her pelvis and replace them with stoma bags.

After gruelling chemotherapy and radiotherapy, an MRI scan showed the cancer had spread to his brain stem and spine.

After the diagnosis, in March 2021, he had five cycles of chemotherapy every three weeks which initially reduced the lesions in his liver.

Although Janssen is grateful she didn't have to go through chemotherapy or radiation since her cancer was detected in the first stage, she understands how disheartening it can be for patients to see their bodies change as a result of treatment, she said.