palliative therapy
palliative treatment

Palliative therapy to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life.

When is a toxic treatment useful as palliative therapy?

These treatments may be given as palliative therapy to help relieve symptoms and improve the quality of life.

The treatment has been approved as palliative therapy for malignant tumors in Germany.

In palliative therapy, the main options are external radiation and radiopharmaceuticals.

The initial choice of palliative therapy is, therefore, dependent on the local expertise with each modality.

If they showed the spread of cancer, I would only opt for palliative therapy and prepare for an early death.

Surgery as palliative therapy to stop bleeding or shrink a tumor that is blocking the stomach.

Radiation therapy as palliative therapy to relieve symptoms in patients who cannot have surgery.

If the tumor cannot be completely removed by surgery, treatment is usually palliative therapy to relieve symptoms and improve the patient's quality of life.

To support those caring for children and young adults with cancer to provide the best curative and palliative therapies.

Chemotherapy as palliative therapy to relieve symptoms and improve the quality of life for patients whose cancer has spread to other parts of the body.

Radiation or immunotherapy to relieve symptoms (palliative therapy).

A clinical trial of chemotherapy as palliative therapy to relieve symptoms caused by the cancer and improve quality of life.

Palliative therapy is used to ease symptoms and manage pain regardless of the stage of the disease or the need for other therapies.

Radiation therapy or surgery to remove bone tumors, as palliative therapy to reduce symptoms and improve the quality of life.

Chemotherapy with radiation therapy as palliative therapy.

At diagnosis, approximately 50% of patients with esophageal cancer will have metastatic disease and will be candidates for palliative therapy.

Furthermore, many patients with severe pain associated with cancer are nearing the end of their lives and palliative therapies are required.

Palliative therapy may be given along with other cancer treatments or when treatment is no longer curative, to make the patient comfortable at the end of life.

Radiation therapy as palliative therapy.

In general, patients with aggressive lymphoma who relapse with indolent histology will benefit from palliative therapy.

Radiation therapy or transurethral resection of the prostate as palliative therapy to relieve symptoms caused by the cancer.

Treatment of distant metastases of gastrointestinal carcinoid tumors is usually palliative therapy that may include the following:

Hydroxyurea is currently used primarily to stabilize patients with hyperleukocytosis, or as palliative therapy for patients who have not responded to other therapies.

It's palliative treatment that has little to do with cure.

Palliative treatment to relieve symptoms and improve quality of life.

I can give you certain palliative treatment that may arrest the lesion.

Palliative treatment usually is conducted to improve quality of life and to achieve a longer survival time.

Answer questions about palliative treatments, which are designed to relieve pain and other symptoms.

Chemotherapy as palliative treatment to relieve symptoms caused by the cancer.

To relieve symptoms but not to cure the skin cancer (palliative treatment).

Palliative treatments for pain, such as nerve blocks, and other supportive care.

Its main therapeutic use is in the palliative treatment of mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease.

Palliative treatment consists of radiation therapy usually combined with chemotherapy.

Some patients can be referred to a 12-step program to help curtail drug abuse during palliative treatment of a progressive medical disease.

Plants like medical cannabis are used for palliative treatment rather than targeting the tumor.

CE approval has been given for palliative treatment of bone metastasis.

Even in 1918, with no vaccines or even palliative treatments like antibiotics.

We can give palliative treatment to ease the symptoms in the final hours, but we've had no luck cracking the code on this thing.

However trials investigating their use as palliative treatment have failed to show positive results while no prevention trial has been completed.

The Foundation reaches the urban and rural poor, and others who require palliative treatment.

Apart from the diagnostic procedures, the therapeutic services include chemotherapy, surgery and palliative treatment.

There is no cure, but Sudafed and similar drugs offer safe and effective palliative treatment.

This is referred to as palliative treatment.

It is used for palliative treatment of advanced prostate cancer, endometriosis and fibroids.

Lupron Depot 7.5 mg approved for palliative treatment of advanced prostate cancer.

A cure for Graves' disease does not exist but with palliative treatment the symptoms can be ameliorated.

"But sympathy," it went on, "is at best a palliative treatment, and one which diminishes in effect with repeated application.

In 1995, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and given roughly a year to live; she declined all but palliative treatment.