• To assess long-term outcomes and toxicity of adjuvant radiotherapy in the post-surgical management of patients with resected high-grade skeletal osteosarcomas. (cun.es)
  • Seventy-two patients with primary resected osteosarcomas underwent adjuvant radiotherapy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy from December 1984 to December 2008. (cun.es)
  • To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of adjuvant chemotherapy compared with radiotherapy or chemoradiation, and to determine which chemotherapy agents are most effective in women presenting with advanced endometrial cancer (FIGO stage III/IV). (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of adjuvant chemotherapy compared with radiotherapy or chemoradiation in women with FIGO stage III and IV endometrial cancer. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • RR 5.73, 95% CI 2.45 to 13.36), than those receiving adjuvant radiotherapy. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • There is moderate quality evidence that chemotherapy increases survival time after primary surgery by approximately 25% relative to radiotherapy in stage III and IV endometrial cancer. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Further research is needed to determine which chemotherapy regimen(s) are the most effective and least toxic, and whether the addition of radiotherapy further improves outcomes. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • The rare nature of adenocarcinomas of the small intestine has led to a paucity of information about the benefits of adjuvant chemotherapy but there are reports of overall better survival for those patients that receive combination treatment. (cochrane.org)
  • We carried out a multicenter, open randomized trial to determine whether adjuvant chemotherapy would improve overall survival and prolong recurrence-free survival in women with early-stage epithelial ovarian cancer. (nih.gov)
  • These results suggest that platinum-based adjuvant chemotherapy improves survival and delays recurrence in patients with early-stage ovarian cancer. (nih.gov)
  • As reported in The New England Journal of Medicine by Heather Wakelee, MD , and colleagues, an interim analysis of the phase III KEYNOTE-671 trial showed that the addition of neoadjuvant pembrolizumab to cisplatin-based chemotherapy followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab improved pathologic response and event-free survival in patients undergoing resection of early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). (ascopost.com)
  • The investigators concluded, "Among patients with resectable, early-stage NSCLC, neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy followed by resection and adjuvant pembrolizumab significantly improved event-free survival, major pathological response, and pathological complete response as compared with neoadjuvant chemotherapy alone followed by surgery. (ascopost.com)
  • The main purpose of the study is to examine if periadjuvant (neoadjuvant, then adjuvant) immunotherapy will prolong event free survival in participants with early stage non-small cell lung cancer. (lung.org)
  • In patients with breast cancer receiving adjuvant 5-fluorouracil/epirubicin/cyclophosphamide followed by docetaxel (FEC-D), we evaluated the impact of chemotherapy total cumulative dose (TCD), and early (FEC) versus late (D only) dose reductions, on survival outcomes. (jnccn.org)
  • 85% for adjuvant FEC-D affects breast cancer survival. (jnccn.org)
  • Treatment of early-stage breast cancer with adjuvant chemotherapy has improved survival. (jnccn.org)
  • Scholars@Duke publication: Adjuvant chemotherapy for osteosarcoma may not increase survival after neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgical resection. (duke.edu)
  • CONCLUSIONS: The use of adjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of localized osteosarcoma of bone did not increase survival after neoadjuvant therapy and definitive surgical therapy. (duke.edu)
  • Adjuvant Therapy and Prognosticators of Survival in Head and Neck Mucosal Melanoma. (rush.edu)
  • Combined multimodality treatments, including radiation, chemotherapy, and total mesorectal excision have been studied extensively over the past few decades, with efforts toward improving rates of locoregional recurrence and disease-free and overall survival in rectal cancer. (northwestern.edu)
  • Predictive and prognostic markers to adjuvant systemic chemotherapy have been identified, with the goal of tailoring therapy and continuing improvement in survival. (northwestern.edu)
  • Vergo, M, Nimeiri, H & Benson, AB 2009, ' Adjuvant chemotherapy after neoadjuvant chemoradiation and surgery: A quest to improve survival for stage II and III rectal cancer ', Current Colorectal Cancer Reports , vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 151-157. (northwestern.edu)
  • This study examined the association between overall survival and Glutathione S-transferase Pi (GST Pi) expression and genetic polymorphism in stage C colon cancer patients after resection alone versus resection plus 5-fluourouracil-based adjuvant chemotherapy. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Predictive biomarkers, on the other hand, can indicate the likely effect of specific adjuvant treatment on patient outcomes such as tumour recurrence or survival. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However this would fail to take account of the factors leading to selection or rejection for chemotherapy, which are themselves likely to be associated with survival potential. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Furthermore, treatment may even result in a net health loss for some types of patients, as small survival gains from chemotherapy are offset by reductions in health related quality of life attributable to the treatment's side effects. (ox.ac.uk)
  • MADRID - Disease-free survival (DFS) in resectable ALK -positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) improved by 76% with adjuvant alectinib (Alecensa) compared with chemotherapy, according to a randomized trial. (newshealth.biz)
  • Treatment with adjuvant alectinib resulted in a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in disease-free survival compared with chemotherapy. (newshealth.biz)
  • I think we should discuss it with the patients, because we have to remember that chemotherapy is the regimen that showed an increase in terms of overall survival in the overall population. (newshealth.biz)
  • Among women with advanced-stage disease, optimal debulking surgery, as well as platinum/taxane-based adjuvant therapy prolongs disease-free and median survival. (cancernetwork.com)
  • This study aimed to assess the survival benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in this patient population. (e-crt.org)
  • The association of adjuvant chemotherapy with disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) was evaluated in overall patients and in the propensity score matched (PSM) cohort. (e-crt.org)
  • Among PDAC patients who underwent surgery following neoadjuvant FOLFIRINOX, adjuvant chemotherapy may be associated with improved survival. (e-crt.org)
  • Adjuvant modified FOLFIRINOX (fluorouracil, leucovorin, irinotecan and oxaliplatin) and gemcitabine plus capecitabine are the preferred chemotherapy regimens as adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with resected PDAC based on their improved survival outcomes compared to gemcitabine monotherapy in phase 3 trials [ 5 - 7 ]. (e-crt.org)
  • Time to begin adjuvant chemotherapy and survival in breast cancer patients: a retrospective observational study using latent class analysis. (bvsalud.org)
  • The association between time to begin adjuvant chemotherapy after breast cancer surgery and survival was investigated using both "traditional" regression analysis and LCA. (bvsalud.org)
  • LCA identified a group of 13-15% of women for whom a longer time to begin chemotherapy had an adverse effect on survival . (bvsalud.org)
  • Adjuvant pembrolizumab significantly improves disease-free survival (DFS) compared to placebo in patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have undergone complete resection, according to findings from the phase 3 PEARLS/KEYNOTE-091 (PEARLS) study. (medscape.com)
  • Results of the International Duration Evaluation of Adjuvant Chemotherapy (IDEA) trial (n=12,834), based on 3-year disease-free survival (DFS), showed that FOLFOX narrowly failed to meet the prespecified noninferiority threshold. (medscape.com)
  • Chemotherapy is also used to improve symptoms and prolong survival in people with stage IV colon cancer. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Most chemotherapy regimens consist of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), alone or in combination with a variety of other agents like doxorubicin, cisplatin, mitomycin C, cyclophosphamide and oxaliplatin. (cochrane.org)
  • The random stratification factors include adjuvant chemotherapeutic regimens (XELOX versus SOX) and tumor anatomical sites (gastric adenocarcinoma versus gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma). (centerwatch.com)
  • as monotherapy for the treatment of those patients who have received at least two chemotherapy regimens for their metastatic disease. (who.int)
  • AGO Vulva CaRE-1 multicenter study - adjuvant radio(chemo)therapy in vulvar cancer. (uni-koeln.de)
  • Current therapy includes neoadjuvant chemotherapy, surgery, and postoperative (adjuvant) chemotherapy. (duke.edu)
  • Four patients in the adjuvant therapy group died of secondary malignancy compared with none of the no adjuvant therapy group. (duke.edu)
  • Adjuvant chemotherapy is commonly used in the therapy of cancer and can be administered before or after the primary treatment. (rush.edu)
  • this is known as adjuvant therapy. (melbendo.com.au)
  • However, an important role exists for the use of chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy in an adjuvant or neoadjuvant setting, and in the treatment of patients with unresectable disease. (medscape.com)
  • The standard treatment of advanced endometrial cancer consists of cytoreductive surgery followed by radiation therapy, or chemotherapy, or both. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • This 'hybrid' model was built in Microsoft Excel with a user friendly interface, and so has the potential to be used as a tool to help inform decisions about the use of adjuvant therapy in patients for whom the net benefits are uncertain. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The randomized, open-label ALINA trial compared alectinib and chemotherapy as adjuvant therapy for patients with resected stage IB-IIIA ALK+ NSCLC. (newshealth.biz)
  • In this podcast, we'll run through research updates spanning from early treatment to post-adjuvant therapy and a taste of the ethical considerations involved in recruiting for clinical trials. (vjoncology.com)
  • This study aimed to examine how biomarker information would impact patients' preferences and physicians' recommendations for adjuvant breast cancer therapy. (blogspot.com)
  • In these cases palliative treatments may include surgical resection, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and stenting procedures. (wikipedia.org)
  • Even when surgical removal is successful chemotherapy and radiation therapy are generally recommended. (wikipedia.org)
  • Treatment may consist of some combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Treatment protocols for colon cancer are provided below, including adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapy for resectable disease and therapy for advanced or metastatic colon cancer. (medscape.com)
  • however, adjuvant therapy may be considered in patients with high-risk disease. (medscape.com)
  • 2 cm in diameter, as adjuvant therapy following neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgery (see sections 4.4 and 5.1). (who.int)
  • Treatment usually includes surgical excision, often with radiation therapy, and with or without adjuvant chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, or both. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Purpose: There is currently no molecular signature in clinical use for adjuvant endocrine therapy omission in breast cancer. (lu.se)
  • Given the unique trial design of SweBCG91-RT, where adjuvant endocrine and chemotherapy were largely unadministered, we sought to evaluate the potential of transcriptomic profiling for identifying patients who may be spared adjuvant endocrine therapy. (lu.se)
  • Ninety-two percent of patients were untreated by both adjuvant endocrine therapy and chemotherapy. (lu.se)
  • Within the MET141 low-risk subgroup (lowest 25th percentile of scores), 95% of patients were free of metastasis at 15 years, even in the absence of adjuvant endocrine therapy. (lu.se)
  • Conclusions: Transcriptomic profiling identifies patients with an excellent outcome without any systemic adjuvant therapy in clinically low-risk patients of the SweBCG91-RT and METABRIC cohorts. (lu.se)
  • In the present study, the clinicopathological features of 173 patients with stage III CRC who underwent radical resection and adjuvant chemotherapy with the fluoropyrimidine/folinic acid, and oxaliplatin (FOLFOX) regimen, and their prognostic values of EGFR expression were retrospectively analyzed. (oncotarget.com)
  • We believe that pembrolizumab has the potential to become a new adjuvant treatment option for patient with [stage IB to IIIA] non-small cell lung cancer following complete resection and adjuvant chemotherapy when recommended," concluded first author Luis Paz-Ares, MD , chair of the clinical research unit at Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, CNIO & Universidad Complutense, Madrid. (medscape.com)
  • We have investigated to what extent cDNA microarray measurements could distinguish the likelihood of recurrences after adjuvant CMF (cyclophosphamide, methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil) treatment of premenopausal, lymph node positive breast cancer patients, and have also compared with the corresponding performance using conventional clinical variables. (lu.se)
  • However, even after curative-intent resection, approximately 75% of patients develop recurrence within 2 years, and recurrence occurs more frequently in the absence of adjuvant chemotherapy [ 1 ]. (e-crt.org)
  • To present oral melanoma with pulmonary metastasis in two dogs applying carboplatin chemotherapy and treatment follow up. (vin.com)
  • If your cancer treatment plan includes neoadjuvant chemotherapy, you are likely to begin chemotherapy very quickly so that surgery can be performed. (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • We set out to determine the impact of adjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy (AC) in a cohort of lymph node positive patients following RC. (canjurol.com)
  • 862 TNM I-III CRC validation cohort, and 2912 TNM II-III CRC adjuvant chemotherapy cohort (TransSCOT). (ox.ac.uk)
  • Median DFS had yet to be reached in the alectinib cohort versus 41.3 months with chemotherapy. (newshealth.biz)
  • We are seeing the first signals of efficacy for adjuvant immunotherapy in two large, randomized trials," Reck said. (medscape.com)
  • Immunotherapy has different side effects than chemotherapy. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Treatment-related death occurred in four patients (1.0%) in the pembrolizumab group, due to immune-mediated lung disease, pneumonia, and sudden cardiac death in one patient each during the neoadjuvant/surgery phase and atrial fibrillation in one patient during the adjuvant phase. (ascopost.com)
  • The ability of a tumour marker to predict response to chemotherapy cannot be determined from a patient series in which some patients were specifically selected for chemotherapy and others were not. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Background: Suboptimal completion of chemotherapy, which may involve reduced patient adherence, remains a serious issue and leads to reduced treatment efficacy. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Title : The Influence of Non-Clinical Patient Factors on Medical Oncologists' Decisions to Recommend Breast Cancer Adjuvant Chemotherapy Personal Author(s) : Pini, T. May;Hawley, Sarah T.;Li, Yun;Katz, Steven J.;Griggs, Jennifer J. (cdc.gov)
  • Given this potential inconsistency, Reck called for further follow-up in this patient population and for studies in larger groups of patients to further delineate the role of PD-L1 as well as EGFR mutations and adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with early NSCLC. (medscape.com)
  • However, in most cases, the patients had received palliative treatment for advanced metastatic disease rather than adjuvant treatment in earlier stages and in most reports there was no random allocation to different treatments. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Chemotherapy is often used alongside surgery to treat cancer. (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • If your cancer treatment plan includes adjuvant chemotherapy or neoadjuvant chemotherapy, that means you will be receiving both chemotherapy and surgery to treat your cancer. (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is delivered before surgery with the goal of shrinking a tumor or stopping the spread of cancer to make surgery less invasive and more effective. (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • Adjuvant chemotherapy is administered after surgery to kill any remaining cancer cells with the goal of reducing the chances of recurrence. (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • For example, a woman with invasive breast cancer or a very large tumor may undergo neoadjuvant chemotherapy to shrink a tumor before breast surgery so a lumpectomy (surgery to remove only the cancer and surrounding tissue) can be performed instead of a mastectomy (removal of the entire breast). (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • Or, she may receive adjuvant chemotherapy after breast surgery to kill any cancer cells that may have been too small to detect during surgery to keep them from growing and spreading. (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • If your treatment plan includes adjuvant chemotherapy, you'll likely begin treatments within 30 days following surgery. (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • Between August 1991 and January 2000, 477 patients in 84 centers in five countries were randomly assigned to receive either adjuvant chemotherapy immediately following surgery (n = 241) or no adjuvant chemotherapy until clinically indicated (n = 236). (nih.gov)
  • all received second-line chemotherapy and surgery and three remained recurrence-free at 5 yr. (nih.gov)
  • following surgery, patients received adjuvant pembrolizumab at 200 mg or placebo every 3 weeks for up to 13 cycles. (ascopost.com)
  • Thirty-five patients received chemotherapy after surgery (adjuvant group) and nineteen patients were followed without postoperative chemotherapy (no adjuvant group). (duke.edu)
  • The current standard of care for resectable ALK+ NSCLC is surgery followed by adjuvant platinum-containing chemotherapy. (newshealth.biz)
  • The benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy following curative-intent surgery in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients who had received neoadjuvant FOLFIRINOX is unclear. (e-crt.org)
  • For patients who undergo upfront surgery for localized PDAC, adjuvant chemotherapy is the standard of care [ 4 ]. (e-crt.org)
  • Women with breast cancer undergoing surgery and subsequent adjuvant chemotherapy in two English regions between January 01, 1998 and December 31, 2004 were identified from a linked cancer registry - Hospital Episode Statistics dataset (n = 10,366). (bvsalud.org)
  • Most people with stage III colon cancer receive chemotherapy after surgery for 3 to 6 months. (medlineplus.gov)
  • This international, multicenter, randomized, double-blind phase III study intends to recruit 680 patients who have received radical gastrectomy (R0 resection, D2 or more extended lymphadenectomy) with postoperative pathological stage II or III (AJCC Cancer Staging Manual, 8th Edition) gastric or EGJ adenocarcinoma to evaluate the efficacy and safety of JS001 combined with postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy versus placebo combined with postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy. (centerwatch.com)
  • This threshold, in addition to early versus late dose reductions, are poorly defined for third-generation anthracycline/taxane-based chemotherapy. (jnccn.org)
  • Belani, CP 2003, ' Early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer: Adjuvant versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy ', Clinical Lung Cancer , vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 11-12. (psu.edu)
  • At first glance one might simply search for a statistical interaction between the marker and chemotherapy by comparing outcome in four categories of patients: those with a low (or negative) value of the marker who did versus did not receive chemotherapy and those with a high (or positive) value who did versus did not receive chemotherapy. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A large trial evaluating the benefits and risks of adjuvant chemoradiation versus chemotherapy in advanced endometrial cancer is ongoing. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • Chemotherapy is the use of powerful drugs to kill or slow the growth of cancer cells. (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • The question of whether platinum-based adjuvant chemotherapy can improve outcomes in patients with early-stage epithelial ovarian cancer is an important one. (nih.gov)
  • Adjuvant chemotherapy is a well accepted concept in the treatment of breast cancer and has resulted in most clinical studies in a significant prolongation of the disease-free interval in certain subgroups of patients. (curehunter.com)
  • Delayed initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy in older women with breast cancer. (physiciansweekly.com)
  • Women with stage I-III, hormone receptor-positive/negative, HER2-negative breast cancer treated with adjuvant FEC-D chemotherapy from 2007 through 2014 in Alberta, Canada, were included. (jnccn.org)
  • A large proportion of breast cancer patients are treated with adjuvant chemotherapy after the primary operation, but some will recur in spite of this treatment. (lu.se)
  • Title : Black-white differences in receipt and completion of adjuvant chemotherapy among breast cancer patients in a rural region of the US Personal Author(s) : Lipscomb, Joseph;Gillespie, Theresa W.;Goodman, Michael;Richardson, Lisa C.;Pollack, Lori A.;Ryerson, A. Blythe;Ward, Kevin C. (cdc.gov)
  • Analysis of patients achieving complete response to induction (neo-adjuvant) chemotherapy for squamous cancer of the head and neck. (northwestern.edu)
  • Stage C colon cancer patients with low GST Pi did not benefit from 5-fluourouracil-based adjuvant chemotherapy whereas those with high GST Pi did. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In colorectal cancer, the prognostic or predictive value of GST Pi expression or genomic polymorphisms for outcomes after chemotherapy has been examined in several studies. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Chemotherapy concerns the use of special cytotoxic drugs to treat cancers by either killing the cancer cells or slowing their growth. (melbendo.com.au)
  • In some instances, chemotherapy may not be able to control the cancer, but indicated to relieve symptoms such as pain and help you lead as normal a life as is possible. (melbendo.com.au)
  • Adjuvant chemotherapy can be used before the main treatment to help make the tumour smaller, or after treatment, to kill residual cancer cells that may cause problems later in treatment. (melbendo.com.au)
  • The Glasgow Microenvironment Score associates with prognosis and adjuvant chemotherapy response in colorectal cancer. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Horsley, JS & Diasio, RB 1980, ' Cancer trends: surgical adjuvant chemotherapy for operable breast cancer ', Virginia Medical , vol. 107, no. 11, pp. 781-784. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Addressing the variation in adjuvant chemotherapy treatment for colorectal cancer: Can a regional intervention promote national change? (ox.ac.uk)
  • Analysis of routine population-based data has previously shown that patterns of surgical treatment for colorectal cancer can vary widely, but there is limited evidence available to determine if such variation is also seen in the use of chemotherapy. (ox.ac.uk)
  • This study quantified variation in adjuvant chemotherapy across both England using cancer registry data and in more detail across the representative Yorkshire and Humber regions. (ox.ac.uk)
  • This study assessed the completion rates, risk factors for noncompletion, and cost impact for noncompletion in patients on capecitabine monotherapy (Cape) or capecitabine with oxaliplatin (CAPOX) for the adjuvant treatment of early-stage colon cancer. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Conclusions: The real-world completion rates for adjuvant capecitabine-based chemotherapy in early-stage colon cancer patients are low. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Adjuvant chemotherapy with S-1 plus docetaxel for highly advanced gastric cancer patients]. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Adjuvant chemotherapy with S-1 monotherapy might be insufficient for Stage IIIB highly advanced gastric cancer patients. (elsevierpure.com)
  • We concluded that S-1 plus docetaxel as adjuvant chemotherapy is a promising strategy for patients with highly advanced gastric cancer. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Dive into the research topics of '[Adjuvant chemotherapy with S-1 plus docetaxel for highly advanced gastric cancer patients]. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Context Patients with breast cancer receiving chemotherapy (CTX) experience multiple concurrent symptoms, but little is known about how symptoms change during and after treatment. (nebraska.edu)
  • Part 1 of this two-part series will discuss prevention, screening, adjuvant treatment, neoadjuvant chemotherapy, and adjuvant chemotherapy trials for ovarian cancer. (cancernetwork.com)
  • CIENCIASMEDICASNEWS: Does biomarker information impact breast cancer patients' preferences and physician recommendation for adjuvant chemotherapy? (blogspot.com)
  • Recently, neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been widely used for the management of patients with borderline resectable pancreatic cancer (BRPC) and locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC) [ 8 - 13 ]. (e-crt.org)
  • Chemotherapy involves taking medicines that kill cancer cells. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Even though the tumor was removed, chemotherapy is given to treat any cancer cells that may remain. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Cognitive function in women with breast cancer receiving adjuvant chemotherapy and healthy controls. (bvsalud.org)
  • Cancers such as doxorubicin are commonly used in cancer leukaemia, colorectal, breast, lung, and so on are chemotherapy. (who.int)
  • No suitable evidence was found to determine the role of adjuvant chemotherapy, when compared with placebo or any other or no adjuvant treatment, in the management of adenocarcinoma of the small intestine. (cochrane.org)
  • Phase III randomised controlled trials comparing post-operative adjuvant chemotherapy for adenocarcinoma of the small intestine with other adjuvant therapies, placebo or no adjuvant treatment. (cochrane.org)
  • Adjuvant chemotherapy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy are frequently used in the treatment of breast, colon, lung, bladder, and prostate cancers. (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • Some adjuvant chemotherapy is administered in a few treatment cycles while others are administered for up to 10 years. (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • The side effects of adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy are the same as when chemotherapy is the only treatment. (rockymountaincancercenters.com)
  • A standard additional treatment in Europe is two cycles of chemotherapy to eradicate these. (nih.gov)
  • Carboplatin adjuvant chemotherapy is a palliative treatment that can reduce burden and improve quality of life of melanoma affected dogs. (vin.com)
  • If biomarkers able to predict the results of chemotherapy were found, this could lead to more accurate targeting of treatment to those stage C patients most likely to benefit and to avoidance of inappropriate treatment, with its costs and possible toxicity, in those unlikely gain any advantage. (biomedcentral.com)
  • There is currently little agreement about which adjuvant treatment is the safest and most effective. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • It disrupts the tumor microenvironment and may prove effective as an adjuvant treatment with chemotherapy. (blogspot.com)
  • In contrast, a trial of adjuvant erlotinib (Tarceva) showed an "impressive" PFS benefit after 2 years of treatment. (newshealth.biz)
  • Rates of chemotherapy were calculated from the Systemic Anticancer Treatment database using multilevel logistic regression. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Noncompletion was associated with CAPOX treatment and higher healthcare costs within 6 months prior to chemotherapy. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Five patients tolerated adjuvant chemotherapy with S-1 plus docetaxel for 1 year (17 courses of treatment). (elsevierpure.com)
  • and (2) after learning that they tested positive for a "B-receptor" which modestly increased both the benefit and toxicity expected with chemotherapy A+B. We performed a cross-sectional analysis of the prospectively collected survey data and used the McNemar's test to examine changes in treatment preferences. (blogspot.com)
  • Information about a positive biomarker indicating increased benefit and toxicity from additional chemotherapy did not change many participants' preferred treatment. (blogspot.com)
  • BT-ON013 trade name] treatment should only be initiated by a health care provider experienced in the administration of cytotoxic chemotherapy (see section 4.4), and should be administered by a health care provider only. (who.int)
  • Patients meeting the inclusion criteria will be 1:1 randomized into JS001-chemotherapy group and placebo-chemotherapy group. (centerwatch.com)
  • Our retrospective study was to evaluate the feasibility and safety of adjuvant chemotherapy with S-1 plus docetaxel. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Adjuvant chemotherapeutic protocol, carboplatin at a dosage of 250 mg/m 2 and doxorubicin at a dosage of 60 mg/m 2 , alternating combination of a 3-week interval was given for 6 treatments. (vin.com)
  • There is limited evidence to recommend a specific neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimen because of the lack of prospective comparative trials. (e-crt.org)
  • Other methods of administering chemotherapy may also include intra-muscular injections, tablets or creams. (melbendo.com.au)
  • By synthesising both prognostic and health economic models she generated a model able to make assessments of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of adjuvant chemotherapy for women with differing prognoses. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Individual tumour foci treated with laser hyperthermia were also coded for laser parameters including power settings, number of treatments, and concomitant administration of systemic chemotherapy (chemothermotherapy). (bmj.com)
  • Laser settings, number of hyperthermia treatments, and the concomitant use of systemic chemotherapy (chemothermotherapy) were not associated with higher rates of vitreous relapse. (bmj.com)
  • From an initial 104 patients treated with chemotherapy and 104 matched controls, 26 were excluded because of non-informative immunohistochemistry, leaving 95 in the treated group and 87 controls. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Across disease stages IB-IIIA, alectinib led to a hazard ratio of 0.24, as more than three times as many clinical events occurred in patients treated with chemotherapy. (newshealth.biz)
  • Standard management in the UK for high-risk stage 1 nonseminoma germ cell tumours of the testis (NSGCTT) is two cycles of adjuvant bleomycin, etoposide (360 mg/m 2 ), and cisplatin (BE 360 P) chemotherapy, or surveillance. (nih.gov)
  • Results: Preoperative skeletal muscle mass was analysed in 225 patients, of whom 97 underwent neoadjuvant chemotherapy. (lu.se)
  • Despite an "impressive" win for the ALK inhibitor, the results should not be interpreted as a death knell for adjuvant chemotherapy in ALK+ NSCLC, said ESMO invited discussant Marina Chiara Garassino, MD, of the University of Chicago. (newshealth.biz)
  • Kaplan-Meier analysis revealed the use of postoperative chemotherapy was not a predictor of improved outcome. (duke.edu)
  • Average cumulative dose was also calculated for early (cycles 1-3) and late (cycles 4-6) chemotherapy. (jnccn.org)
  • 5% during neoadjuvant chemotherapy were less likely to undergo adjuvant chemotherapy than others (68% vs 85%, p = 0.048). (lu.se)
  • Results from the model suggest that the cost-effectiveness of chemotherapy decreases as prognosis improves. (ox.ac.uk)
  • There is a need for high quality randomised controlled trials to evaluate the effectiveness of adjuvant chemotherapy in the management of adenocarcinoma of the small intestine. (cochrane.org)
  • Eyes that developed vitreous relapse were coded with regard to Reese-Ellsworth Group, laterality, time to relapse, type of relapse (vitreous base or non-vitreous base relapse), treatments used (including adjuvant diode laser), and ocular preservation. (bmj.com)
  • Prior chemotherapy must have included at least an anthracycline and a taxane unless patients are unsuitable for these treatments. (who.int)
  • Evaluation of the use and efficacy of (neo)adjuvant chemotherapy in angiosarcoma: a multicentre study. (rush.edu)