The potential value of the new once-weekly treatment modality will also be discussed.
We collected for every doctor their weekly, monthly and annual modalities per patient (pharmaceuticals, supplies and laboratory tests) and added the number of visits, for each one of the different stages of the disease.
The emergence of non-conventional hemodialysis therapies (NCHD), such as nocturnal HD (NHD), short daily HD (SDHD) and long, thrice weekly (LHD), as dialysis modalities have resulted in changes to the dialysis prescription on an individual basis.
We presently report on a phase II study with this new modality of weekly cisplatin and daily oral etoposide in patients failing conventional platinum-based combination chemotherapy.
In the following 3 weeks the modality was switched weekly to the alternative one.
Nonetheless, based on existing data on the poor efficacy of cisplatin in pelvic recurrent cervical cancer, we believe that the combined modality approach of weekly hyperthermia plus dose-intensive cisplatin is an attractive regimen, particularly if subsequent salvage surgery is available.
Mean haemoglobin with SD and delta Hb, value percentages outside the target (during the 32 weeks of the simulation) and ability score for the 6 modalities, comparing monthly to weekly administration (half-life of 24, 48 and 138 hours; monthly M and weekly W administration) (simulation B).
It will be of interest to examine whether less-toxic docetaxel treatment modalities (lower doses given weekly) will induce similar levels of CK18-Asp396 as traditional schedules (Engels and Verweij, 2005).
N = 25 Table 2 shows the percentage of values outside the target during the 32 weeks of the simulation for each modality, comparing monthly to weekly administration.
Ten treatment sessions (one weekly) will be given in each modality, in which the children will do different activities proposed by the physiotherapist according to their motor possibilities.
