Sentence examples for curative aim from inspiring English sources

In stages IA to IIB the primary objective is generally surgical tumor resection with a curative aim.

Between 2000 and 2004, 3066 patients underwent resection of GC with the curative aim at the Yonsei Cancer Center, Severance Hospital Yonsei University Health Systemm, Korea).

Therefore, more aggressive clinical treatment needs to be applied, if there is a curative aim, in the form of radical surgery or radiotherapy plus adjuvant treatment (Skinner et al, 1991).

A descriptive and analytical prospective audit was conducted from April 2nd till July 2nd, 2012 from all cases of hospitalized patients having benefited from an antibiotic treatment with curative aim.

(c) Patient-dependent factors: Hope for the future was an important driver for patients' decision-making [ 3, 44, 47, 48], although this hope at times reflected poor understanding of the palliative rather than curative aims of treatment [ 4, 48, 72– 72].

Neoadjuvant hormonal therapy (NHT, i.e., therapy given before definitive local treatment with curative intent) aims to reduce tumour bulk and treat micrometastatic disease together with the primary lesion, although effects on metastases could be a consequence of local control rather than a systemic effect.

What distinguishes this therapy from others is the induction and utilization of a special positive quality in the therapeutic relationship as a therapeutic aim and "curative factor" in its own right beyond its role as the substrate for a trusting relationship that underlies all successful psychotherapeutic treatments.

The aim of surgery with curative intent for MPM is to obtain macroscopic resection, but which surgical procedure, EPP or P/D, is more beneficial remains controversial [1, 4].

However, we conclude that local recurrence per se should not disqualify from aiming at surgery with curative intent.

Curative drugs aim to eliminate parasites from a sick animal.

The intervention is aimed at cancer patients treated with curative intent, aged 18 60 years, employed and on sick leave.