The phrase "alternating therapy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to medical treatments or therapeutic approaches that involve switching between different methods or modalities.
Example: "The doctor recommended alternating therapy to help manage the patient's chronic pain more effectively."
Alternatives: "rotating therapy" or "switching therapy".
This is termed sequential therapy, which has been proven to be clinically superior to alternating therapy.
Advanced stage III IV disease received a regimen of doxorubicin, prednisone, vincristine, mercaptopurine, and MTX ± alternating therapy with high-dose cytarabine and intermediate-dose MTX.
Treatment consisted of at least four courses of simultaneous or sequentially alternating therapy with cisplatin, vinblastine, bleomycin plus/minus adriamycin (PVB +/- A), administration of ifosfamide or combination therapy with ifosfamide/cisplatin (IFS/DDP) or ifosfamide/etoposide (IFS/ETP).
In conclusion, the Goldie-Coldman model of alternating therapy is not confirmed in this trial of adjuvant therapy of early breast cancer, although in view of its design a difference of less than 20% in 3 year disease-free survival could not be excluded.
A total of 756 cycles of the sequential therapy and 830 cycles of the alternating therapy were administered, with a median numbers of 6 and 7 cycles per patient, respectively.
Second-line therapy was not defined for patients assigned to the alternating therapy.
This work is a step forward for defining criteria for when to initiate and alternate therapy.
More patients randomized to alternate therapy had their final protein C increase above the lower limit of normal.
In the second study, participants are alternating drug therapy for a week and then stopping for a week in repetitive cycles.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the response rate and toxicity of alternating weekly therapy with etoposide-methotrexate-dactinomycin/cyclophosphamide-vincristine for women with high-risk gestational trophoblastic disease.
Consequently, important clinical questions such as whether changes in the frequency of drug administration or alternating drug therapy could avoid or contribute to this process need to be addressed.
