Sentence examples for because of persistent disease from inspiring English sources
However, because of persistent disease after both surgery and EBRT, tumour progression inevitably occurs in all patients (Fine et al, 1993. Therefore, the development of new therapeutic modalities for brain tumours is needed.
This lack of confirmation of persistent disease is important because many cervical lesions may regress after the initial diagnostic biopsy.
The detection of hTERT expression was significantly associated with the presence of persistent disease (P =.035).
Included were 90 patients with RA who required anti-TNF-α therapy with infliximab because of persistent active disease despite treatment with methotrexate.
Of interest is the observation that 50% of patients in the infliximab group could stop the biologic at the end of year 1 because of persistent low disease activity.
Although no boost radiotherapy was planned in this protocol, three patients did receive a further 15 Gy in six fractions of external beam radiotherapy 6 weeks after definitive CRT, because of the presence of persistent, palpable disease.
There is, however, a population of patients for whom persistent disease is a problem.
A population-based Melbourne study showed that in 1964 30% of asthmatic children had persistent disease and 22% had severe persistent disease that was apparent before 3 y.
Evidence of disease <3 months after completion of treatment was defined as persistent disease (Table 2).
Only 8 of 151 (5.3%) patients had persistent disease in the pelvis.
