Being progression-free doesn’t mean that the cancer has been cured or that it is no longer producing symptoms. It means that it isn’t progressing further. The number is only a statistic for the time period stated and doesn’t necessarily predict what will happen in the future. Survival s...
“The results showed a dramatic increase in PFS. There was a 55% reduction in the risk of progression compared with chemotherapy, which is somewhat unprecedented,” Powles, the director of Barts Cancer Centre at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, England, said in an interview with Oncology ...
The ultimate goal in cancer treatment is to cure the disease, but when this is not possible, the goal becomes providing the best palliation. The most important outcomes of treatment are overall survival (OS) and disease-free survival (DFS). However, longer progression-free survival (PFS), ...
The method has been successfully used in characterisation and detection of brain and prostate cancer and there is some evidence towards its use as a response biomarker following chemotherapy in breast cancer (Baek et al, 2009). There is yet not enough evidence to support the role of MRS as a...
Being progression-free doesn’t mean that the cancer has been cured or that it is no longer producing symptoms. It means that it isn’t progressing further. The number is only a statistic for the time period stated and doesn’t necessarily predict what will happen in the future. ...
For lung cancer staging, the N factor has historically been graded based on anatomical location, and traditionally does not include the quantification of the involved lymph nodes [10]. According to the current 8th TNM staging edition for NSCLC, N2 involvement is defined as metastasis in ...
This narrative review examined the evidence base for SACT-associated surgical risk and the precautions that a surgical team should consider in patients undergoing SACT. Keywords: systemic anti-cancer therapy; surgical intervention; surgical complications Academic Editor: Guido Alberto Massimo Tiberio ...
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Most orphan drugs do not meet traditional standards of cost-effectiveness. Yet, most orphan drugs are reimbursed, which implies that other factors are taken into account at the time of reimbursement. To increase accountability of decision-makers, there i
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