The phrase "as initial therapy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical or clinical contexts to refer to the first line of treatment for a condition.
Example: "The patient was prescribed medication as initial therapy to manage their symptoms."
Alternatives: "as first-line treatment" or "as primary therapy".
Goetz, M. P. et al. MONARCH 3: abemaciclib as initial therapy for advanced breast cancer.
Burger JA, Tedeschi A, Barr PM, Robak T, Owen C, Ghia P, et al. Ibrutinib as initial therapy for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
The other trial, partly paid for by Roche, involved adding Avastin to the standard drugs used as initial therapy.
To estimate the activity and tolerability of iniparib plus paclitaxel and carboplatin as initial therapy of uterine carcinosarcoma.
Clinicians should offer combination chemotherapy and a HER2-targeted agent as initial therapy for all patients with HER2-positive advanced GEA.
But the agency has never faced a situation like this, in which the larger studies, known as the intact trials, already showed that Iressa did not prolong lives when used as initial therapy.
Ohanian M, Kantarjian HM, Quintas-Cardama A, Jabbour E, Abruzzo L, Verstovsek S, et al. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors as initial therapy for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in accelerated phase.
Chemotherapy is used when reduced immunosuppression fails to control early disease and as initial therapy for many cases of late disease.
Therapy for certain medical conditions occurs in a stepwise fashion, where one medication is recommended as initial therapy and other medications follow.
To determine whether visual acuity improvement with Bangerter filters is similar to improvement with patching as initial therapy for children with moderate amblyopia.
To evaluate vasopressin vs dopamine as initial therapy in extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants with hypotension during the first 24 hours of life.
