Erectile dysfunction reported in PREDICT was significantly greater for combination therapy compared with doxazosin or finasteride separately (10.5% vs 5.8%and4.9%9%, respectively, p < 0.01).
Thus, for serodiagnostic methods, there is greater value for combination with, not replacement of, the sputum smear and sputum culture test.
On the other hand, inhibition of molecular targets in hypoxic cells should offer a more benign toxicity profile, which is distinctly different from that of cytotoxic therapy, and therefore have greater opportunity for combination with current standards of care.
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Clinically, there is a great potential for combinations of MEK inhibitors and conventional chemotherapeutics.
Moreover, improvements seen in the combination therapy group were numerically and statistically significantly greater for the combination product compared with the monotherapies administered alone.
Thus, in patients with known ER-positive/HER2-positive tumours, the addition of lapatinib to letrozole significantly reduced the risk of progression and improved median PFS; clinical benefit rate was also significantly greater for the combination [ 32]; a preplanned analysis was also able to show an impact of combination therapy on PFS in the HER2-negative population.
The proportion of patients receiving their first prescription from a specialist was greatest for the combination salmeterol/fluticasone (60.2%), and lowest for rofecoxib (23.0%).
Disease control rates were 56%and32%2%, respectively, and time to progression was also significantly greater for the combination arm (4.1 vs 1.5 months, P<0.001).
