Chinese studies show that patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy recover faster and live longer when given Astragulus root extract as an adjuvant therapy. The roots of 4 year old plants is harvested in the autumn and dried for use in the extraction process. Astragulus extracts are bacteri...
The collected HSC are infused into a recipient (Gratwohl2018). Before the infusion, the recipient is treated with a conditioning regimen (see Chap.6), involving the use of different types and dosages of chemo and/or radiotherapy and/or immunosuppressant drugs (such as anti-thymocyte globulin)...
The immune function of tumor patients is in an abnormal state, and surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy will cause certain damage to the immune function of the human body. After clinical treatment, adjusting the immune function as soon as possible is the top priority to prevent recurrence and m...
2.2.2 Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation In allogeneic HSCT, the recipient receives HSCs from a related or unrelated donor who can be fully or partially human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-matched (Fig. 2.1); related donors are family members; unrelated donors are identified through a donor ...
A potentially long post as I think I’ll struggle to stop once I get going. If anyone else out there has been through the same and has any advice I’d b...
to help a quick recovery. Knowing what to expect and how to deal with it can go a long way to hasten the recovery process from the surgery. Also most of the people have to take pain medications to control pain after surgery and the pain medication do have some side effects like ...
Stress factors such as chemotherapy, antimitotic drugs, radiotherapy, hypoxia, or a deficient microenvironment may induce PGCCs formation [28] by means of a giant cell cycle (cycle linked to polyploidization and depolyploidization processes together with neosis) used for dedifferentiation of somatic cell...
The person, who has completely relied on medical intervention and treatments for healing, has disowned their body, and must find a way to fully recover their sense of self, in its wholeness. After this personal tsunami, creating a vital impulse and a new direction that fits one’s intimate ...
In self-attention, the query, key, and value all originate from the same input sequence. This allows the architecture to model relationships and dependencies between elements within the same sequence, making it particularly useful for tasks that involve capturing long-range dependencies and context [...
Indeed, 25–42% of patients initially candidate to LT after chemoradiation will not be transplanted due to inability to tolerate the treatment, complications, or tumor progression. Furthermore, LT can be technically complicated due to the effects of radiotherapy on the hepatic hilum. Since the ...