"preventing side effects" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It means to take actions to avoid or minimize negative consequences or unintended results. Example: "The doctor prescribed a new medication to treat my illness, but also gave me some tips on preventing side effects, such as drinking plenty of water."
It is not yet known if memantine is effective in preventing side effects caused by whole-brain radiation therapy.
Furthermore, there are evidences that various herbal medicines have proven to be useful and effective in sensitising conventional agents, prolonging survival time, preventing side effects of chemotherapy, and improving quality of life in lung cancer patients (Chen et al, 2010; Jeong et al, 2011).
PURPOSE: This randomized phase III trial is studying memantine to see how well it works compared to a placebo in preventing side effects caused by whole-brain radiation therapy in patients with brain metastases from solid tumors.
The envelope bulks up the drug to such a size that it cannot exit the blood stream and enter healthy organs, preventing side effects including liver and heart damage.
We sought to characterize quality of life (QOL) before treatment and to compare an add-back regimen of norethindrone acetate (NA) with conjugated estrogens (CEE) to NA alone for preventing side effects of GnRHa therapy in female adolescents with endometriosis.
CONCLUSION: Simvastatin was effective at ameliorating the negative urodynamic changes and inflammation in the bladder after CP administration and is a potential therapy for preventing side effects in patients undergoing this chemotherapy.
We therefore developed a psychological side -effect prevention training (SEPT) to prevent side effects by optimizing patients' expectations, which may be an effective pathway to enhance overall quality of life.
The latter is used as an effective cytoprotective agent in cancer therapy to prevent side effects [13, 21].
"It can also prevent side effects".
Would he take another medication with it to prevent side effects?
Waiting until the particles reach their destination before activating them could help prevent side effects from a particularly toxic drug, says James Heath, a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology.
