Global efficacy was good or very good, already after 2 weeks of treatment, and improved further till the end of the study.
Results: The evidence for the prophylactic efficacy of fluconazole is good, although insufficient to draw conclusions about the other antifungals.
Importantly, however, we found that retreatment is safe and the clinical efficacy is as good as that before discontinuation.
Summing up the above, if treatment efficacy is relatively good, our conclusions suggest immediate treatment with high uptake rate; otherwise the current policy is reasonable.
It indicates that if the treatment efficacy is really good (i.e., relatively low infectiousness), our conclusion suggests immediate treatment; otherwise the current policy is recommended.
The efficacy of this treatment is good, with reported groin recurrence rates varying between 1% and 10% (Burger et al, 1995; Bell et al, 2000).
For saw palmetto there is good evidence for efficacy over placebo while for the other three the data are inconclusive (see table 3).
Macrolide antibiotics have anti-inflammatory activity [ 3] and in clinical studies there is good evidence for efficacy in the treatment of diffuse pan-bronchiolitis and cystic fibrosis, as well as in preventing chronic rejection after lung transplantation [ 4, 5].
50 Treatment compliance of patients enrolled in the above clinical efficacy trials was good.
For patients who were CTC-positive before chemotherapy, if CTC was not detected in the peripheral blood after chemotherapy, it suggested chemotherapy had an effect on the tumor cells and that chemotherapeutic efficacy may be good.
