One project, the TAILORx study, uses the Oncotype DX score to gauge the need for adjuvant therapy and to predict the response to such adjuvant chemotherapy treatments.
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The results showed a considerable decrease in recurrence and increase in the survival of patients with HER2-positive breast cancer after the inclusion of trastuzumab to adjuvant chemotherapy.
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Since seminoma can recur decades after the primary tumor is removed, patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy should remain vigilant and not assume they are cured 5 years after treatment.
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Adjuvant chemotherapy is also typically reserved for anaplastic ganglioglioma, but has been used anecdotally in partially resected low grade spinal cord gangliogliomas which show evidence of disease progression.
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But the tumor comes back in the other 30 percent of cases _ forcing many women to opt for so-called " adjuvant chemotherapy " as a precautionary measure.
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Adjuvant chemotherapy and adjuvant radiotherapy are directed at killing any micrometastases, thus preventing relapse ( regrowth of the cancer ) and the ( likely ) death of the patient.
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The study was directed by Dr . Gianni Bonadonna, medical oncologist at the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Milan, a pioneer in the use of adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer.
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Adjuvant chemotherapy for lung cancer is " a new standard of care, but not necessarily the only standard of care " . ( " New England Journal of Medicine ", 2004)
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About 75, 000 of them need " adjuvant chemotherapy " after surgery for a tumor that has spread to the nearby lymph nodes under the arm, said Ellence manufacturer Pharmacia & Upjohn.
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In completely resected medulloblastoma, 5-year survival rate is 85 % if adjuvant chemotherapy and / or craniospinal irradiation is performed, and just 10 % if no adjuvant chemotherapy or craniospinal irradiation is used.
