He needed brain surgery and the most aggressive type of chemotherapy.
That first exciting result compared Avastin with a type of chemotherapy that has since been widely replaced by a more effective regimen.
In fact, if Lance had received a slightly different type of chemotherapy, his lungs would have been injured in a way that would have made it impossible for him to return to competitive cycling.
In a small trial in lung cancer patients who had failed one type of chemotherapy, Erbitux plus a chemotherapy drug called Taxotere, shrank tumors in 26percentt of patients.
One type of chemotherapy works about 6% of the time in late-stage lung cancer.
The adjuvant medical treatment of colon carcinoma can be subjet to variability regarding indications, type of chemotherapy and followup.
So there's a potential that some might even be cured with a more aggressive type of chemotherapy.
Those with the mutation were also four times less likely to respond to a common type of chemotherapy.
They tested their system on a test case of a patient experiencing severe cough since starting Tarceva (a type of chemotherapy).
Several preclinical and clinical HCC studies suggest that metronomic chemotherapy may become an alternative type of chemotherapy for advanced unresectable HCC and postsurgical adjuvant treatment of HCC.
Treatment schedules for chemotherapy may vary depending on the type of cancer, the goals of treatment, the type of chemotherapy and the patient's state of health.
