Sentence examples for failed to prolong from inspiring English sources
Sadly, the search failed to prolong her life beyond the age of 36.
Doctors said the effect of the drug, however modest, was somewhat significant because many other drugs had failed to prolong the lives of lung cancer patients.
Ligand Pharmaceuticals said yesterday that two studies had found that its drug Targretin failed to prolong life when used with chemotherapy against the most common form of lung cancer.
Dr. Judah Folkman of Children's Hospital in Boston hypothesized 30 years ago that doing so could starve tumors, but several drugs using that approach have failed in human clinical trials; Avastin itself failed to prolong life in breast cancer patients.
F.D.A. Awaiting More Data On Lung Cancer Drug Officials of the Food and Drug Administration are awaiting more data before deciding the fate of AstraZeneca's Iressa, a lung cancer drug that was rapidly approved for use by desperate patients but has failed to prolong lives in a clinical trial.
In March partners Isis and Eli Lilly announced that the new drug, Affinitak, failed to prolong the survival of patients in a large clinical trial.
Deletion of TSG6 in human MSCs reverses their ability to repair myocardial infarct, corneal damage and fails to prolong the corneal allograft survival.
However, Norden et al. found that, compared to cytotoxic agents, anti-angiogenic therapy may fail to prolong overall survival in patients with recurrent malignant glioma [ 29].
A drug that is capable of delaying time to tumor progression may therefore favorably impact quality of life in a clinically meaningful way, even if it fails to prolong overall survival.
The growth of tumor cells gradually accelerated 1 year after the completion of RT, which can partly explain why early RT improves the seizure control and PFS but fails to prolong OS.
We demonstrated that sunitinib fails to prolong overall survival in the 4T1 model when it was administered after intravenous tumour cell injection, indeed we even observed shortening of overall survival in this scenario.
