With the help of intense treatment over the past few years, she managed to get clean and rebuild her life.
By reducing the testosterone levels, Lupron merely slows cancer growth and sometimes shrinks the prostate cancer tumor in anticipation of a more intense treatment, Dr. Nelson said.
Still others, like Dr. Glick, are starting to tell women with estrogen-fed cancers that although they still need chemotherapy, they may not need the most intense treatment.
The bullpen coach Guy Conti, who watched him throw long toss, concurred, but Wagner needed intense treatment from the training staff.
Mr. Hall's suicide attempt, which led to a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and an intense treatment program, found him re-evaluating his position.
Intense treatment of feed water solves high demands on a demineralized water quality in the processes involving hot water/steam boilers.
"It is impossible to say for sure so early, but it could be that, after intense treatment and rest for a few weeks, he may be able to get back to play with painkilling injections".
Standard treatment meant a target of less than 140 mm Hg for the systolic blood pressure (the top number) and intense treatment meant a target of less than 120 mm Hg.
European groups stratify patients to more intense treatment by considering additional unfavorable factors, such as age, number of nodal sites, sedimentation rate, extranodal disease, and elements of the international prognostic score for advanced HL.
The SPRINT researchers randomly assigned 9,361 patients at increased cardiovascular risk (though without diabetes) with a systolic blood pressure of 130 mm Hg or higher to either standard treatment or to intense treatment.
The researchers still have to sift through the data on those who died to find out whether there was any pattern that might help explain why patients in the intense treatment group fared worse.
