The problem with traditional chemotherapy is that it can't be focused.
Despite Ruth's full time dedication , but Arlene died , after undergoing traditional chemotherapy.
This experimental treatment has a big advantage over the use of traditional chemotherapy : It has very few side effects .
The important thing, said Dr. Brem, is that patients do not suffer the nausea, vomiting and hair loss caused by traditional chemotherapy.
Yes, the approach can work, but it also causes many of traditional chemotherapy's infamous side effects.
They did this while causing none of the devastating side effects of traditional chemotherapy.
In one drug trial, a 2-year-old died even though traditional chemotherapy could almost certainly have cured her cancer.
The doctors told me that traditional chemotherapy would be ineffective.
The blood feeding the tumor will carry the microspheres directly to the tumor enabling a more selective approach than traditional systemic chemotherapy.
Its side effects, which doctors have said are less bothersome than that of traditional chemotherapy, include an acnelike rash and diarrhea.