Sentence examples for pet regimen from inspiring English sources

The superiority of the PET regimen was limited to hormone-receptor negative or HER2/neu overexpressing tumours.

In the mid-nineties, we started the assessment of a weekly triplet regimen including cisplatin, epirubicin, and paclitaxel (PET regimen) in breast cancer patients (Frasci et al, 1999).

Also in this case the superiority of the PET regimen was evident only in those patients with HER2 positive tumour (31 vs 5%; P=0.037) (Table 5).

We set as 5% the pCR rate expected with the administration of epirubicin plus paclitaxel, and we hypothesised a 10% increase with the PET regimen.

The present study aimed at evaluating whether a weekly cisplatin, epirubicin, and paclitaxel (PET) regimen could increase the pathological complete response (pCR) rate in comparison with a tri-weekly epirubicin and paclitaxel administration in locally advanced breast cancer (LABC) patients.

In the present study, a reduction of the risk of relapse with the PET regimen becomes evident after 3 years in ER/PgR negative patients, and is maintained beyond 5 years.

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However, the value of pretherapeutic dosimetry is still a controversial debate for radioiodine therapy and even I-PET-based treatment regimens have not been shown to be superior to the use of standard activities [ 37].

By using an FDG-PET-based risk-adapted BEACOPP regimen they showed that the cumulative dose of chemotherapy can be reduced for standard and high-risk Hodgkin lymphoma with no detrimental effects on outcome.

If a patient were found to have a poor chance of achieving good results from the current treatment regimen based on interim PET, the therapy could then potentially be altered in hopes of achieving a better outcome.

In the dose-painted redistriburtion radiotherapy regimen, the GTV-FDG-PET is defined by an automatic iso-contour at 50% of the maximum uptake in the primary tumour.