Sentence examples for therapies given from inspiring English sources
In fact, Avastin did improve survival at one year for about 5 percent, or about 1 in 20 of those treated, although this early benefit was not maintained because of other therapies given later.
"What worries me is that we don't know if this was a toxicity unique to Lilly's drug and this late-stage population or whether it also applies to similar anti-amyloid therapies given at earlier stages of the disease," Dr. Doraiswamy said.
The report said nothing about whether the therapies given were state of the art or carefully done, said Matt Nock, a professor of psychology at Harvard and the lead author, and it is possible that some of the treatments prevented suicide attempts.
Recent findings outline a mechanism by which cytotoxic therapies given in cyclical doses can actually augment later treatment resistance and may open the door to new areas of research and to emerging therapeutic targets that implicate the DNA damage response program in certain cell types.
Recent developments have included a series of new endocrine therapies such as pure anti-oestrogens and selective oestrogen receptor modulators, and trials are in progress to determine their role in the sequence of therapies given the first-line role now occupied by the aromatase inhibitors.
Thus far, antiangiogenic agents have been employed as general therapies given on a population basis, rather than as targeted therapies given to patients with a specific molecular phenotype.
When practiced faithfully, evidence-based therapies give users their best chance to break a habit.
Targeted therapies give the clinician the ability to select NSCLC treatments based on the molecular characteristics of the patients' cancer.
The same survival-promoting environment also rescues/protects leukemic cells from cytotoxic therapies, giving way to disease relapse.
Questions still persist about AIDS treatment, particularly therapy given early in the disease when the immune system is intact.
"So many of them are not taking their ARV medication properly," she says, referring to the free antiretroviral therapy given to those infected with HIV.
