Sökning: "adjuvant treatment"
Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 246 avhandlingar innehållade orden adjuvant treatment.
21. Adjuvant hormone therapy in breast cancer patients : a special focus on treatment discontinuation
Sammanfattning : Purpose: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, with approximately 80% of cases being estrogen-receptor (ER) positive. Adjuvant hormone therapy is a standard treatment that is recommended for ER-positive patients for a minimum of five years, but many patients discontinued it prematurely. LÄS MER
22. Prognostic and treatment predictive factors for radio- and chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer patients- a step towards personlized medicine
Sammanfattning : Breast cancer is the most common cancer form among women in the Western world. Although treatment has improved during the last decades, there is still a significant proportion of the patients who are not cured. LÄS MER
23. Ewing sarcoma : treatment, prognosis and late effects
Sammanfattning : Ewing sarcoma (ES) is a rare and aggressive childhood/adolescent malignancy which relies on a multidisciplinary treatment approach for cure. The overall survival rate for this young patient group has hardly improved over the last 30 years despite large multinational treatment trials. LÄS MER
24. Mismatch repair deficiency in colorectal cancer : prognosis and prediction for basic treatment strategies
Sammanfattning : Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a significant healthcare problem worldwide, being the third most common cancer and the fourth most frequent cause of cancer death. Environmental and dietary factors such as alcohol abuse, cigarette smoking, and genetic predisposition seem to constitute the main aetiologies. LÄS MER
25. Prostate cancer : investigating diagnosis, treatment and outcomes
Sammanfattning : Background: Prostate cancer is difficult to study. The prostate is located so that it is hard to palpate and because of the dense pelvic bones it is hard to visualize using radiology such as computed tomography. The prostate increases in size with age and it can be irregular in shape and consistency without the presence of cancer. LÄS MER