Sentence examples for curative setting from inspiring English sources
In the absence of robust data, many investigators have used combination platinum therapy involving taxane with the rationale that if the addition of a taxane to carboplatin is associated with a survival benefit in advanced disease, then maximal benefit in the stage I curative setting is likely to be best achieved with the combination.
Its further investigation in the curative setting in non-small cell lung cancer should be considered.
None of these patients were receiving adjuvant chemotherapy or treatment in the curative setting.
Prospective studies are still required before routine practice changes in the curative setting.
What about the curative setting and patients receiving adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy?
No adjuvant therapy was provided to these patients in the curative setting.
These trends were independent of disease stage and suggest that stratification based on CatS expression may aid in identification of low- and high-risk patient groups still in a potentially curative treatment setting.
This study will place PCC in a cross-domain perspective in the Netherlands for the first time as multidisciplinary collaborations are initiated among municipalities, public health services and the curative care setting.
9 Comparable occupational interventions have proved to be cost effective for the return to work of patients with subacute and non-specific low back pain in primary care, 10 11 12 but the effectiveness of such an intervention has not been established yet for patients with chronic non-specific and specific low back pain in an outpatient curative care setting.
There was a small, telling and heartbreaking sentence in the BMJ report: "Most drugs (90%) were approved for use in a non-curative setting". The authors express concern that new drugs and treatments are often discussed and promoted as "breakthroughs" even though they may not be clinically meaningful to patients.
Clarity regarding the term "palliative chemotherapy" is needed: it is chemotherapy given in the non-curative setting to optimize symptom control, improve quality of life, and sometimes to improve survival.
