Over 90% of men are started on androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) which is non-curative and confers systemic side-effects.
Gammaglobulin replacement therapy is non-curative for the patients with XLA.
Palliative treatment was defined as treatment that is non-curative but to relieve suffering, which included best supportive treatment.
Treatments for terminal illnesses are non-curative by definition and so are likely to result in relatively small health gains when compared to other types of treatment.
Alternative treatments, such as hypomethylating agents or lenalidomide, are only used for high-risk MDS or when cytopenias worsen, but even these are non-curative options.
In light of these findings, FDG-PET/CT may provide effective information to physicians to identify patients for whom resection would be non-curative and then consider preoperative treatment such as neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
The outcome was non-receipt of curative treatment.
Logistic regression was used to investigate associations between age and non-receipt of treatment, adjusting for confounders; the outcome was non-receipt of curative treatment (radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy).
Hormone therapy and watchful waiting are considered non-curative and are classified as conservative management.
The events that occurred most often in patients treated with curative intention were non-cancer-related death (n = 74), distant metastases (n = 66) and death from CRC (n = 59).
When patients or physicians are non-compliant with standard treatment guidelines, for whatever reason, it is not surprising that less curative treatment options, and moreover non curative treatment options will be proposed, both leading to worse survival.
