Clinicians are motivated to "bend" protocol rules because they view the experimental therapy as promising.
Mr. Faust is such a believer that he has taken part in the experimental therapy for his leg as well.
Then Wolchok offered Belvin treatment with the antibody to CTLA-4, which was still an experimental therapy.
One patient in the experiment died two months after receiving the experimental therapy, but the researchers did not report the death to the agency.
However, brain-scan technology has also helped doctors identify one patient at J.F.K. Johnson as a candidate for an experimental therapy.
If the experimental therapy worked, this haste would be justified; if it didn't, Nicola would feel that they had taken a foolish risk.
Wilson said the hospital hoped to be able to provide Salia with experimental therapy, including a convalescent serum that has been used to treat Ebola patients.
The Christina Fund for Head Trauma has been established to support advocacy of preventive measures, and of research of recovery methods, including experimental therapy in music and art.
The doctor was not sure if his patient had the will to try another experimental therapy.
If you're still doggedly subjecting yourself to another experimental therapy, then you're "battling on"; if you've started preparations for end-of-life care, then you're preparing to "lose your brave fight" or "finally give in" to an unconquerable enemy.
After one of her chemotherapies seemed to shrink the thyroid cancer slightly, I even raised with her the possibility that an experimental therapy could work against both her cancers, which was sheer fantasy.
