Sentence examples for palliative chemo from inspiring English sources

In February, he embarked on a course of palliative chemo.

"He does realise he is having palliative chemo, right?" The surgeon's mild exasperation mingles with mine, threatening to overflow at the next visit.

My Dad later would receive another weaker more palliative Chemo treatment to try to shrink the size of the tumors, but soon after he was once again carried out of our home by an ambulance crew after he was unable to stand, and he had a very high erratic heart rate.

In recent years, there has been a significant improvement in overall survival with palliative chemo- and antibody-based therapies in various malignancies, especially colorectal cancer [ 2- 5].

This 'HER-2 paradigm' may also be relevant for other breast cancer patients in whom successful control of the disease outside of the CNS is achieved with adjuvant or palliative chemo- and radiotherapy (Lin and Winer, 2007).

Considering also that in cases of pelvic sidewall or abdominal wall infiltration (stage T4b) or metastases in pelvic lymph nodes or bone marrow, palliative chemo- or radiation therapy is given, accurate staging is very essential.

In this study, we evaluated 226 blood samples of 39 metastatic breast cancer patients during a follow-up of palliative chemo-, antibory, or hormonal therapy for the expression of ALDH1 and the EMT markers TWIST, Akt2, and PI3Kα, and correlated these findings with the presence of CTCs and the response to therapy.

Treatment options include curative and palliative surgery, chemo-radiotherapy and stent insertion.

Review of the literature No. Author Age Sex Histology Location Size Treatment Prognosis 1 Sabanathan [3] 67 M SCNEC Bm 5 cm Palliative bypass and chemo.

Therefore it is important that in the future studies at least to supplement the QLQ-C30 with the QLQ-STO22 in measuring quality of life in patients with gastric cancer undergoing surgery, surgery and chemo-radiotherapy, palliative chemotherapy, palliative surgery and best supportive care [ 11].

wibbitywobbitywoo, brain tumor "I told my doctor I wanted to switch to palliative care and discontinue all chemo.